On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Laurent Bercot <ska-skaw...@skarnet.org> wrote: >> musl supports the zoneinfo format, according to >> http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html >> So as long as it does, there's no reason why it shouldn't support >> the right/ timezones, which are zoneinfo timezones just like POSIX ones. > > > Follow-up on that. > > musl does not support right/ timezones, and there's actually a good > reason for it. > Essentially, the configuration of the system clock (TAI-10 or UTC) > is a system-wide setting, whereas timezones are a process-wide setting -
The kind of support I thought/hoped that musl would provide has to do with localtime() for applications that need to deal with, well, local time. The system time should be TAI10! Any other choice is a commitee produced abomination. Unless I misunderstood, what is the good reason for not supporting it, other than being difficult or heavy? Jorge
