From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED.5toSSCP5H8WhQPVIfFrwuA.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Getting the 3 letter time zone abbreviation Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 17:38:38 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <4f7d162e-356c-4cc4-abc3-f4cfe195b9cd@googlegroups.com> <9dad342a-7981-4d09-a414-7cec651097ac@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 5toSSCP5H8WhQPVIfFrwuA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:58553 Date: 2020-05-02T17:38:38+02:00 List-Id: On 2020-05-02 17:08, Bob Goddard wrote: > And apparently this will not work on non BSD/Linux system, as we need access to the external var tzname, which, if going by the similarly external errno, would require a small C program. > > Unless someone knows how to get access to arbitrary external vars. http://ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-A-17.html > Still, there is no reason why this could not be implemented in GNAT. You can propose an AI for the incoming standard. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de