[tz] What are the interfaces to the TZDB?
Eliot Lear
lear at lear.ch
Tue Nov 9 15:15:01 UTC 2021
On 09.11.21 15:52, Tom Lane via tz wrote:
> AFAIK, the only way to enumerate the available zones in a typical
> installation is to search the directory tree. This isn't great,
> not least because it means that non-tzcode code has to know where
> that directory tree is. It'd be good to support that functionality
> in a more direct fashion.
That's an easy one to solve (finally? An easy problem?). That is the C
equivalent of-
( export TDIR=/usr/share/zoneinfo cd $TDIR; find * -type f -print |egrep
-v 'VERSION|leapseconds|posixrules|zone.tab' )
where TDIR is defined at build. Is that an important interface to
define and standardize?
Eliot
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