Extension to tzcode to support additional timezones

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday, October 26, 2010 1:24:46 pm Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Oct 26,  9:58am, guy at alum.mit.edu (Guy Harris) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: Extension to tzcode to support additional timezones
> 
> | > - void *tzopen(const char *name).  This loads the rules for a specified
> | > timezone and returns a void * cookie.  If the zone cannot be parsed it returns
> | > NULL and sets errno to EINVAL.
> 
> Why return void *, when you can return an opaque type
> that can be typechecked?

An opaque type would be an improvement.

> | People have been suggesting this sort of thing on several occasions,
> | so we'd be interested in an API of this sort.  (In the past, I'd
> | proposed support for this, with a patch, and somebody pointed out
> | the tm_zone issue.)
> 
> Well I proposed the same change and I provided a patch. I have not heard
> any feedback if people like the patch (the names or the arguments or the
> way the patch was done) or not.
> 
> I have been curious since the early nineties why this has not been done
> already (since I needed this 20 years ago in a multi-timezone tranding
> system I was writing at the time).
> 
> I would like to make progress on this. If people like the patch, I can
> implement the zone name pooling code and fix the manual page. I don't
> want to spend the time to improve on this if people think that I am
> doing things the wrong way or this will never be accepted.

I am not tied to my patch, I would just like the functionality in some form.

-- 
John Baldwin