[tz] NetBSD vs Darwin timezone API
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sat Nov 12 07:16:17 UTC 2016
Guy Harris wrote:
> what conclusion did we come to, if any, about the lifetime of memory pointed to by tm_zone?
In the reference implementation and in NetBSD, the lifetime is until the
corresponding timezone_t object is passed to tzfree. Come to think of it, that
argues against spontaneous changes to timezone_t objects unless the changes
never obsolete any existing abbreviations.
I don't know about Darwin. I hope the tm_zone lifetime is not erratic (i.e.,
until the next time the system randomly decides to change time zones); that
would be bad.
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