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#ifndef DRIZZLED_TZTIME_H
#define DRIZZLED_TZTIME_H

#include <drizzled/memory/sql_alloc.h>
#include <drizzled/type/time.h>

#include <drizzled/type/time.h>

namespace drizzled
{

class String;

/**
  This class represents abstract time zone and provides
  basic interface for type::Time <-> type::Time::epoch_t conversion.
  Actual time zones which are specified by DB, or via offset
  or use system functions are its descendants.
*/
class Time_zone: public memory::SqlAlloc
{
public:
  Time_zone() {}                              /* Remove gcc warning */
  /**
    Converts local time in broken down type::Time representation to
    type::Time::epoch_t (UTC seconds since Epoch) represenation.
    Returns 0 in case of error. Sets in_dst_time_gap to true if date provided
    falls into spring time-gap (or lefts it untouched otherwise).
  */
  virtual type::Time::epoch_t TIME_to_gmt_sec(const type::Time &t,
                                              bool *in_dst_time_gap) const = 0;
  /**
    Converts time in type::Time::epoch_t representation to local time in
    broken down type::Time representation.
  */
  virtual void gmt_sec_to_TIME(type::Time &tmp, type::Time::epoch_t t) const = 0;

  /**
    Because of constness of String returned by get_name() time zone name
    have to be already zeroended to be able to use String::ptr() instead
    of c_ptr().
  */
  virtual const String * get_name() const = 0;

  /**
    We need this only for surpressing warnings, objects of this type are
    allocated on memory::Root and should not require destruction.
  */
  virtual ~Time_zone() {};
};

extern Time_zone * my_tz_SYSTEM;
bool     my_tz_init(Session *org_session, const char *default_tzname);

} /* namespace drizzled */

#endif /* DRIZZLED_TZTIME_H */