Re: time_t timezone

Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at> writes:
> Yes, they are talking about the localtime return value,
> but nevertheless the newlib folks refer to that. Their fault.

> Should I discuss that with them?

Probably.  They have a gratuitous variation from the Single Unix Spec.

>> But what may be more to the point is that AFAICS we make no assumption
>> about the exact datatype of the timezone variable.

> Bruce' patch only assumes time_t on CYGWIN and it is only for pgtypeslib
> (src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/dt.h). Not for src/timezone/pgtz.c

Per my recent post in pghackers, I think that the datatype has nothing
to do with it anyway.  The real problem is the loss of this code that
was in pg_config_manual.h in 7.4 and before:

/*
 * Define this if your operating system has _timezone rather than timezone
 */
#if defined(__CYGWIN__) || defined(WIN32)
#define HAVE_INT_TIMEZONE        /* has int _timezone */
#define HAVE_UNDERSCORE_TIMEZONE 1
#endif

I'm inclined to just put it back, rather than adding a configure test
that we never needed before.

            regards, tom lane