On Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:43:54 +0200
Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> wrote:

> The IANA TZ DB can be compiled with "-DNETBSD_INSPIRED=1" to offer
> tzalloc()/tzfree(), which returns NULL on invalid names.
> Always available on NetBSD.  It could be it enters POSIX at some
> later time, but it needs a sponsor, and should have seen adoption.
> It can be used when available.

Thanks for some history.  The BSD interface is far superior, and is
thread-safe too.  Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like glibc on Linux has
these interfaces, and since that's where most Remind installations run
(I think) it's probably not worth looking for them and trying to use
them.

Regards,

Dianne.
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