Re: [Chicken-users] Timezone bugs in the posix module

[John Cowan]

Jim Ursetto scripsit:

> Posix is pretty much useless for handling timezones correctly; behavior
> varies greatly based on the OS, and I am fairly sure the direction of
> the wind plays a part as well.

Actually, there are only two systems in live use, IANA (formerly Olson)
and Windows (excluding Cygwin).  What I said in my previous post referred
to the IANA system, which is used on all the Chicken platforms other
than MinGW.

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