Bug#271428: Processed: your mail
At Sun, 26 Sep 2004 07:15:23 -0400,
Michael Stone wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 09:19:42PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> >At Sat, 25 Sep 2004 07:23:27 -0400,
> >Michael Stone wrote:
> >> No, not date. date has nothing to do with this, it's a libc function
> >> (which is why it's reassigned to libc). I fully agree that *libc* should
> >> handle the case differently, it's been confusing users for years.
> >
> >Did you read my mail?
>
> Yes, and it's not the first time you send a mail with no interest in
> people's legitimate concerns without offering a rationale for your own
> position.
> >Why don't you think people should check using tzselect and so on?
>
> Because they don't. We've gotten varients of this bug on a regular basis
> for years. The current situation is obviously suboptimal, and obviously
> confuses our users. In general we try to write software such that if
> someone makes a typo the software gives them some indication that
> they've done something wrong so that they can fix it. But in this case
> the software does something completely unexpected and silently gives out
> unexpected data. And so far you haven't given any indication of why you
> think that's a good thing and the proposed solution is a bad thing.
You argument is no sense for me without code.
Regards,
-- gotom
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