Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017, at 23:41, Nick Downing wrote:
> > I see, no I had not realized that code is still in use, I would have
> > thought it had been replaced by a whole lot of POSIX bloat.
>
> POSIX doesn't even have the timezone files - it 'allows' for
> implementation-defined timezones, but POSIX itself basically only
> defines the System V TZ variable with a few extra bits to specify a
> single set of daylight saving rules, e.g. "EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0".

We recently discussed whether we should add a pointer to the Olson code but we 
did not find a website that is expected to exist in 10+ yaers. It is however 
obvious that there is no known current implementation that uses a different 
implementation. So it would be obvious to mention that code in the POSIX 
standard.

Jörg

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