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Date:      Wed, 19 Aug 1998 03:50:31 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        committers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        bde@hub.freebsd.org, jkoshy@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: missing tzname decl in <time.h>
Message-ID:  <199808181750.DAA20908@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>From a `hdrchk'[*] run, checking for POSIX90 compliance
>
>	*** Starting time.h
>	Missing: extern char    *tzname[];
>	*** Completed time.h
>
>I don't have a copy of POSIX90, (or POSIX96 or FIPS) handy to refer to,
>but I suspect adding an extern declaration will restore POSIX 
>compliance for this header.  `tzname' seems present in the C lib.

Looks like it is in POSIX.1-1990 (it's listed in the headers section
but not index properly), but the ADO timezone code (which we use) is
attempting to deprecate it.  POSIX has priority.

Bruce
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