exposing system time zone

[Andrew Paprocki]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:28 PM, David Herman <dherman at mozilla.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know why it was left out of the first version of the Intl API?
> Just for lack of time? Is it planned for the next edition? Are there tricky
> issues around standardizing IANA time zones, or around incompatibilities
> between different OSes?
>

It might be related to the fact that the standard lib lets you craft your
own timezone using standard notation and it does not have to correspond to
a file in the IANA tzdata?

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/TZ-Variable.html

(first 2 formats)

-Andrew
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