https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114645

Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED

--- Comment #6 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Hristo Venev from comment #4)
> Therefore current_zone() as currently implemented is worse than useless --
> it is a footgun.

So don't use it then.


> The people who wrote the standard probably did not consider how various
> platforms handle default time zones this at all.

That's a pretty bug assumption, and wrong.


> I don't understand why you consider the ability to override the default time
> zone using an environment variable to be a flaw.

For one, the environment is mutable and not threadsafe.


Anyway, this isn't going to change just because you don't like it.

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