Re: [Boost-users] [Date_Time] Posix Time Zone offset question

Jeff Garland wrote:

Well, this is really just convention at some level.

Right. POSIX.1 (IEEE Std 1003.1) convention as far as I am able to find. Unless I've found the wrong POSIX.1 documentation I consider the fact that posix_time_zone expects negative values for offsets west of the Prime Meridian or the fact that it claims to use IEEE Std 1003.1 timezone strings to be a bug. It would be nice to be able to use the TZ environment variable as the argument to the posix_time_zone constructor if TZ existed and did not have a leading colon. -- Jacob