Re: NSTimeZone

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 16 Dec 2003, at 10:09, Sheldon Gill wrote:

> I have a minor patch for NSTimeZone. It fixes a trivial bug and adds 
> some
> documentation. Who should I send it to?

The bugs mailing list  or savannah ... but the savannah stuff is not 
working
at the moment ... this means we can't commit patches to cvs for some 
time
until it's sorted out :-(

> On the subject of documentation for NSTimeZone:
>
> Why does it require the additional GMT+/- zone info files? Is this 
> purely for
> compatibility with OPENSTEP?

Speaking from memory ... I think that's the case.  I beleive the 
OpenStep and
posix conventions differed on this.

> There seems to be some question here about archiving/unarchiving time 
> zone
> objects from old nibs.

I don't know about that .

> I'm wondering if we can drop the requirement. That way, the zone info 
> files
> GNUstep uses are the same as glibc and we can eliminate some 
> redundancy on
> GNU/Linux and other glibc platforms.
>
> I believe that the time zone information files are also on Solaris?

I seem to recall having been told long ago that posix zones were 
insufficient
for an efficient NSTimeZone implementation.  However, IMO the 
simplification
of only having the code deal with one scheme outweighs the redundancy 
...
disk space for a few timezone files is cheap.