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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: misc/24590: timezone function not compatible witn Single Unix Spec v2
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The following reply was made to PR misc/24590; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To: crandall@matchlogic.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: misc/24590: timezone function not compatible witn Single Unix Spec v2
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:52:34 -0500 (EST)

 <<On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:13:07 -0800 (PST), crandall@matchlogic.com said:
 
 > I realize that I can work around this in an application a number
 > of ways. For example, use FreeBSD's tm_gmtoff member of struct tm.
   
 > However, is it a long-term goal for FreeBSD to conform to the
 > Single Unix Specification?
   
 It is a long-term goal for FreeBSD to conform to POSIX and include as
 much Single UNIX Spec (aka XSI) functionality as seems useful and
 prudent.  We are not likely to change the API in the way that you
 suggest, precisely because superior alternatives exist, and changing
 to the XSI definition would break backward compatibility.
 
 -GAWollman
 
 


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