[tz] A discussion on POSIX on new timezone related C APIs
Guy Harris
guy at alum.mit.edu
Thu Nov 12 23:05:50 UTC 2015
On Nov 12, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:
> http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1005
>
> The proposals seem to be:
> 1. Something involving integrating timezone information into locale_t
> 2. Something along the lines of NetBSD's _z/_rz functions
>
> The fact that no-one seems to have a reference C implementation of
> localizing time zone names/abbreviations also came up.
>
> I don't know how open they are to outsiders sticking their noses into
> the process though, just thought some people here might be interested.
I'm not sure what constitutes an "outsider"; I and, I think, kre were involved with POSIX at some point, but, for me, that was decades ago. They sound pretty open:
https://www.opengroup.org/austin/
I've signed up for an account there and have made some comments, as has kre.
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