Time Library Organisation

[Aaron Denney]

On 2005-01-31, Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com> wrote:
> when TZ is set to "right/..." glibc assumes the system clock is set to
> TAI seconds since the epoch.
>
> Of course, there's still no way for a user program to tell whether the
> system clock is supposed to be TAI or UTC.

Right.  If we only cared about glibc systems (and a few others, I
believe a couple of the *BSDs may also have this available), TZ
would be a reasonable heuristic (it fails even there because of
/etc/timezone)

-- 
Aaron Denney
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