On Fri, December 9, 2011 16:04, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Jonas Maebe wrote: > >>>> it also solves the problem that some targets may not support returning >>>> the >>>> time in UTC. >>> >>> I think that Michael already exposed more then enough the holes in >>> this argument. >> >> He did not expose any holes in any argument. He simply said that Go32v2 >> and >> OS/2 can be ignored as far as any potential implementation problems are >> concerned because Go32v2 and to a (much) lesser extent OS/2 do not >> support >> various features. I strongly disagree about the OS/2 part because its >> target >> support is still actively maintained, so the least courtesy we can do is >> to >> try to accomodate it rather than simply upfront state "if it doesn't >> work for >> your target, tough luck". > > Hola :-) I didn't say we should not accomodate it. > > I did say that *the decision* to introduce it should not depend on some > specific > older platforms not being able to support it, since this is true for other > calls as > well, and they were introduced nonetheless. > > If we decide to put it in, we should help Tomas finding an implementation > method > for OS/2. This is understood.
Thanks, but don't worry, I didn't take personally. ;-) I know the proper solution for both GO32v2 and OS/2 (and probably also other platforms not providing native support of timezone handling). As mentioned previously, this solution is based on parsing the TZ environment variable (see e.g. http://www.scribd.com/doc/70722660/37/The-TZ-Environment-Variable including the notes about the "alternative format used for OS/2" - and actually necessary for DOS / GO32v2 too). The only trouble (and reason of my original comment) is that the system doesn't enforce existence or validity of this environment variable - it's merely a user setting. If it doesn't exist, the implementation needs to assume that local time = UTC. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
