Re: [Boost-users] [Date_Time] Posix Time Zone offset question

From: Jacob Anawalt (jacob_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-26 11:58:34

Jeff Garland wrote:
> 
> Well, this is really just convention at some level.  

Right. POSIX.1 (IEEE Std 1003.1) convention as far as I am able to find.

Unless I've found the wrong POSIX.1 documentation I consider the fact 
that posix_time_zone expects negative values for offsets west of the
Prime Meridian or the fact that it claims to use IEEE Std 1003.1 
timezone strings to be a bug.

It would be nice to be able to use the TZ environment variable as the 
argument to the posix_time_zone constructor if TZ existed and did not 
have a leading colon.

-- 
Jacob