From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 82945 invoked by alias); 6 Aug 2015 21:46:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-locales-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-locales-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 54364 invoked by uid 89); 6 Aug 2015 18:44:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mail-out.m-online.net X-Auth-Info: y7vQ1NPFqfEDQBuh0OVC5MyyI7/QKqlR+YVvjuSVuEF+BJarg1OCIsg+JcAa++7J From: Andreas Schwab To: Keld Simonsen Cc: Joseph Myers , Marko Myllynen , GNU C Library , libc-locales@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove locale timezone information References: <556F23C9.3030500@redhat.com> <557AE725.5050104@redhat.com> <20150805090748.GH26572@vapier> <20150805100126.GA11842@www5.open-std.org> <20150805102233.GA12350@www5.open-std.org> <20150805105311.GK26572@vapier> <20150805113049.GB16488@www5.open-std.org> <20150805133305.GM26572@vapier> <20150805155626.GA14334@rap.rap.dk> <20150806180145.GE28963@www5.open-std.org> X-Yow: I'm QUIETLY reading the latest issue of ``BOWLING WORLD'' while my wife and two children stand QUIETLY BY.. Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 21:46:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20150806180145.GE28963@www5.open-std.org> (Keld Simonsen's message of "Thu, 6 Aug 2015 20:01:45 +0200") Message-ID: <877fp86yup.fsf@igel.home> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2015-q3/txt/msg00080.txt.bz2 Keld Simonsen writes: > Locales are just a way of providing all these data, collected from > different sources, into one uniform syntax, to be utilized by > different glibc functions. And also collected so the user > can choose the whole collection in one go. That has proven a useful > concept for many years in the POSIX/C environment. And the timezone package it the primary source for timezone data. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."