Re: RFC: should GMime use GDateTime instead of time_t?

[andré <andr55 laposte net>]

Albrecht Dreß a écrit :
> Hi Jeff:
>
> Am 26.03.17 14:50 schrieb(en) Jeffrey Stedfast via balsa-list:
> > Currently, g_mime_message_get_date() is somewhat awkward in that it
> > returns a time_t but also has a int *tzone parameter that gets set to
> > the timezone offset.
>
> I wonder if this interface actually works for all cases, as the docs for
> 2.6 say "int *tz_offset: pointer to timezone offset (in +/- hours)".
> But some time zones do not have an integral offset relative to utc (e.g.
> India = 5 hours 30 minutes - for ~1.2 * 10**9 people!).

It is not only India, and not only half hour.
Burma/Myanmar = +6:30 ; Nepal = +5:45 ; Afghanistan = +4:30
Iran = +3:30 ; Newfoundland, Canada = -3:30
(Only another ~ 2 * 10**8 people)


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André