Extension to tzcode to support additional timezones
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Oct 26 17:59:17 UTC 2010
On Tuesday, October 26, 2010 1:33:34 pm Paul Eggert wrote:
> Having an extension like this would be nice, but while we're
> making the interface reentrant, we should also pass in the
> locale as a parameter, for functions like strftime
> that need the locale to do their work. Many operating
> systems already have strftime_l and we should extend that.
>
> Also, it would be better to use names that build
> on existing conventions, rather than inventing new names.
> How about if we use a z suffix for the new functions that
> have a time zone parameter? That would build on the existing
> tradition of using _r and _l for similar extensions. Something
> like this:
>
> strftime_lz (for the strftime_l variant that has a time zone parameter)
> localtime_rz (for the localtime_r variant that has a time zone parameter)
> mktime_z (for the mktime variant that has a time zone parameter)
>
> I agree that it'd be better to have a new opaque type,
> struct tz * (say), rather than void *.
These all sound fine to me. I am not tied to any specific names. I mostly
care about not having to maintain this functionality as a local patch.
--
John Baldwin
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