Re: [TCLCORE] TIP #173, time zones and redundancy

[Larry W. V. <lv...@ca...>]

From: ke...@cr... (Kevin Kenny)
>  We
>     haven't very many more years before it really starts hitting
>     the banking industry; there are a lot of 30-year bonds and
>     30-year mortgages out there.

And anyone 21 or younger, who wants to do financial planning for retirement,
is already hitting the problem.

>       The code needs
>     to be Linux-specific, because even the majority of Unix systems
>     that do use the Olson codes have all sorts of different places
>     for keeping the data.  The paths have differed even on different
>     *releases* of Solaris, causing no end of fun for statically
>     linked binaries.

Maybe I am missing someting obvious here - can't we also provide a
configure flag for someone to specify , if they so desire, that tcl should
use the files at /my/timezone/path rather than built in files?  In
theory, configure could even check the files for the common problems
and let the person know that there are problems...
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