API

[Markus Kuhn]

WHarms at bfs.de wrote on 2001-11-25 18:31 UTC:
> is anyone working on an API to access the timezone files ?

On

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/c-time/

you'll find one proposal, plus links to a few others (Eggert, Lennox,
Tribble, Bernstein, etc). Not much progress with getting some standards
committee (C, POSIX, SUS, etc.) excited about a revised time/zone API
though, though it is a very well-understood and mature area by now.

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>