[tz] Java & Rearguard
Robert Elz
kre at munnari.OZ.AU
Thu Jun 6 10:52:31 UTC 2019
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 10:51:46 +0100
From: Ian Abbott <abbotti at mev.co.uk>
Message-ID: <3925de4e-efc8-2f91-2a33-274e2e56178f at mev.co.uk>
| On 06/06/2019 03:33, Steve Summit wrote:
| > (As an aside: Is it my imagination, or was there a time when C
| > had an array of 1, 2, or maybe more than 2 time zone strings,
|
| It's not your imagination. [...]
Just in case anyone is confused, there's no element of "C is better than
Java" (or anything similar) here - the C standard, and POSIX, are just as
broken and need fixing as well.
What's broken is making any assumption (*any* assumption) about the way
that civil time works. Whatever you assume, somewhere, sometime, it
will be incorrect.
kre
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