From: Stoned Elipot <Stoned.Elipot@...>
Date: 2001-06-07T17:45:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16298] Re: Timezone in Time::{local,gm}

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 01:30:19 +0900  Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>  (a) not every system has tm_zone, so it's not portable to use it.
> 
>  (b) POSIX time system can only treat either UTC or local timezone
>      whereever your system is located.  So what do you think Ruby can
>      do with tm_zone using system's own time functions, in portably
>      way?

You (and others) are definitively right. Sorry for the noise!

Perhaps we can extend/make a Class/Module which will use and provide
an interface on zoneinfo files.

Best regards, Stoned.