Proposal: API for thread-safe time zone functions

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 15:28:20 -0400 (EDT), Garrett Wollman <wollman at khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> said:

> For example, the timezone America/Montreal is appropriate for both
> en_CA and fr_CA locales

One more thing I forgot: even if my locale is en_US, I might still
wish to find out the time in Europe/Paris or Asia/Tokyo and have it
displayed in a manner which is appropriate to *my* locale, not the
prevailing locale in those places.

-GAWollman