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. _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] https://dianne.skoll.ca/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
