FW: timezone code - re-entrancy issue
John Dlugosz
JDlugosz at TradeStation.com
Mon Jan 12 22:45:39 UTC 2009
>> We know. The tzname[] array is a bogus legacy interface that has
to
be maintained for compatability with ancient applications. Nothing
rational
is going to be using it these days. Just ignore that nonsense - if
your
application has no need for this legacy compatability, just delete
tzname[] completely.
So what is the way, in this code (or POSIX), to get the name of the
timezone? And I assume what is really wanted is the name at the time of
interest, so you can label output with the local time and the
abbreviation.
--John
(Forgive me for using Outlook; I can't find a way to format quotes. Or
to do anything else for that matter.)
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