Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: access to Solaris2.5 system? [Re: strftime merge from Emacs

[Paul Eggert]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> What do you think about using a tzset wrapper/replacement
> that does *not* clobber localtime's buffer on losing systems?

I'd go along with that if it's possible, but I don't see how it'd be
possible.  The only way to not clobber localtime's buffer is to copy
it before calling tzset.  But the only way to find out the address of
localtime's buffer is to call localtime -- which has the side effect
of clobbering localtime's buffer.