Proposal: API for thread-safe time zone functions

Jonathan Lennox lennox at cs.columbia.edu
Thu Jun 7 19:28:52 UTC 2001


On Thursday, June 7 2001, "Garrett Wollman" wrote to "Jonathan Lennox, tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov" saying:

> <<On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 15:04:44 -0400 (EDT), Jonathan Lennox <lennox at cs.columbia.edu> said:
> 
> > timezone_t is fine.
> 
> It may be fine for you, but it's a real PITA for anyone trying to
> write reasonable header files for an unrelated library.

I'm not sure I follow you...you'd prefer the 'struct timezone' (or whatever)
name, but you think it wouldn't get past a standards committee?

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Jonathan Lennox
lennox at cs.columbia.edu



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