"Ross J. Reedstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:21:09PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Provide a portable way of getting libc to tell us whether it likes TZ, >> and I'll be glad to fix this.
> Dang that lovely word 'portable'. However, given your proposed change, > perhaps the hurdle for portable time handling is now lower: it seems we've > not been exposed to as broad a range of broken systems as in the past. On this particular point my threshold of 'portable' is actually pretty low, as long as it's fail-soft. Failure to detect bad TZ on some systems would leave them no worse off than before, right? But I haven't seen *any* published API that directly tells you whether tzset liked TZ or not --- AFAICT it's supposed to just silently substitute GMT. Which would be okay if "GMT" were the only allowed spelling of GMT, but it ain't ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]