On 12/16/11 2:58 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Unfortunately, the necessity of tzset would remain however.
Why? From http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904875/functions/tzset.html:
"The tzset() function shall use the value of the environment variable TZ to set time conversion information used by ctime(), localtime(), mktime(), and strftime(). If TZ is absent from the environment, implementation-defined default timezone information shall be used."
I'd expect a good standard library implementation for D would call tzset() once per process instance, lazily, inside the wrapper functions for the four functions above. Alternatively, people could call the stdc.* versions and expect tzet() to _not_ having been called.
That strikes the right balance between convenience, flexibility, and efficiency.
Andrei
