From: Jacob Anawalt (jacob_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-26 11:58:34
Jeff Garland wrote:
>
> Well, this is really just convention at some level.
Right. POSIX.1 (IEEE Std 1003.1) convention as far as I am able to find.
Unless I've found the wrong POSIX.1 documentation I consider the fact
that posix_time_zone expects negative values for offsets west of the
Prime Meridian or the fact that it claims to use IEEE Std 1003.1
timezone strings to be a bug.
It would be nice to be able to use the TZ environment variable as the
argument to the posix_time_zone constructor if TZ existed and did not
have a leading colon.
-- Jacob