Paul Janzen <pjan...@foatdi.net> wrote: > My issues with the time system are (a) it has to "just work", so it flees > to UTC the instant something goes wrong, but never makes available any > status as to whether the asked-for time zone is the one returned, except > for (b) my program aborts if I'm pledged and I go do something silly with > the TZ.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this behaviour. It is commonly known as 'garbage in, garbage in".