From:	naisbodo <naisbodo AT enteract DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: strftime: Need Help with Time Offsets
Date:	22 Dec 2000 01:51:59 GMT
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Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> Of course, %z can be made to do whatever we want. 

More realistically, it should allow existing programs to work without
modification.  There are two cases of existing programs:

   * Programs which must be ported and rely on a standard behavior
   * Programs which are on DJGPP already and rely on existing behavior

Which is more significant in this case?  Is there a way to support both
behaviors if both are important?

> So if you think it should do something else please say so and I will 
> try to code for that.  

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

> Maybe you have a copy of the ANSI standard to check on this?  (I do
> not have a copy here).

Which ANSI standard?  C99 refers to ISO 8601 on %z, which says HHMM,
while %Z is implementation-defined.  This question would best be
asked on comp.lang.c.

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