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RE: prevalence of "right" time zones without timegm()?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jul 6 11:04:27 2011

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Dave Daugherty <dave.daugherty@centrify.com>
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Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:04:21 -0400
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On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 02:03 -0400, Dave Daugherty wrote:
> Your proposed solution seems reasonable to me, but the man page for
> timegm suggests an alternative implementation using tzset and mktime.
> I assume you considered that and discarded it?

We would definitely not want to temporarily modify the environment value
of TZ within the krb5 library; that would have serious multithreading
issues.


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