Bug#271428: Processed: your mail
At Sat, 25 Sep 2004 11:26:36 +0200,
martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp> [2004.09.25.0420 +0200]:
> > > Tue Sep 14 06:19:23 Croatia/Split 2004
> > >
> > > it should be
> > >
> > > Tue Sep 14 06:19:23 GMT 2004
> >
> > Show us your reason of "it should be" with the standard documents,
> > without your opinion.
>
> Oh, whatever. I am not going to search whether this is specified in
> the standards. I am talking about common sense here. A line such as
>
> Tue Sep 14 06:19:23 Croatia/Split 2004
>
> is just plain wrong. Either date should report an error when the
> requested timezone cannot be found, or it should specify which
> timezone is at the basis of the date and time it reports.
>
> What it's doing right now is plain wrong, IMHO. Yes, that's my
> opinion.
strftime(3) %Z returns the TZ variable if TZ is not appropriate
character. SUSv3 says it's implementation-dependent behavior. Look
at other systems; Solaris also returns like Linux.
I don't want to know you like this form or not because I already knew
it. There are some reports about it. OTOH, I want to know changing
to GMT is appropriate thing or not with the C and POSIX specification.
Regards,
-- gotom
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