Re: [PATCH] Add support for TZ names with <> in tzset

On 2020-12-12 10:56, Earle F. Philhower, III via Newlib wrote:
> On 2020-11-16 18:43, C Howland via Newlib wrote:
>> On Monday, November 16, 2020 5:30 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>>> On 2020-11-16 08:13, Corinna Vinschen via Newlib wrote:
>>>>> On Nov 14 15:03, Earle F. Philhower, III via Newlib wrote:
>>>> Should consider modifying the PD TZ project tzcode reference src
>>>> localtime.c tzparse()
>>>> https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/master/localtime.c#L1069
> thanks for the suggestion but I'd be very worried about opening
> up this function so completely. There's unfortunately not a set of unit
> tests for the time routines in newlib, and there's not any particular
> issue that's seen other than this timezone naming scheme.

The deltas between newlib, BSD, and tzcode are mainly minor feature checks, and 
functions dropped from tzcode due to being non-functional, outdated, or rarely 
used, retained in libc for ABI compatibility.

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