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- Date: 6 Mar 86 23:09:30 EST (Thu)
- From: floyd!opus!ka@SEISMO.CSS.GOV (Kenneth Almquist)
- Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
-
- I basicly agree with Robert Elz. A few comments:
-
- 1) I suggest adding an entry for the timezone name to the tm
- structure. Something like
-
- char tm_zone[6];
-
- I expect that time zone names will not exceed 5 characters, although
- the size of this array need not be specified in the standard. I don't
- suggest making tm_zone a character pointer because if that were done
- any implementation would be complicated by the need to ensure that
- tm_zone was still valid after settz was called with a different time
- zone.
-
- 2) The routine name is gmtime, not gmttime.
-
- 3) Removing the explicit mention of a time zone directory from the
- standard means that there is no longer a way to find the offset of time
- zone that a time zone name represents. How about providing a routine
- to do this:
-
- long tzoffset(tzname) char *tzname;
-
- which takes a time zone name and returns the offset of that time zone
- in seconds with respect to GMT?
- Kenneth Almquist
- ihnp4!houxm!hropus!ka (official name)
- ihnp4!opus!ka (shorter path)
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 5, Number 67
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