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Re: [PATCH] localtime.cc: Point TZDIR to the /usr/share/zoneinfo


On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:50:39AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Should we do some extra stuff to maintain backward compatibility with
> > the old /usr/local/etc path?  I don't think so but...
> >
> > Corinna
> 
> That's pretty much what I suggested in
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-11/msg00443.html>.  Right now, the
> code is not $TZDIR-aware, AFAICS.  IMO, having it first check the TZDIR
> environment variable, and if that's not set, default to the #defined value
> of TZDIR would be the right solution.  Something like (very raw)

Interested to change this to a real patch with ChangeLog and all that?

Corinna

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