On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 11:26:36AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
Oh, whatever. I am not going to search whether this is specified inthe standards. I am talking about common sense here. A line such asTue 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.
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. If people really want to use oddball timezones there is a simple procedure for adding a new zoneinfo file. Mike Stone