Bug#375978: timezone variable not set correctly, bug blocking LSB Conformance

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:51:50PM +0200, Martin Dittmar wrote:
> > Package: libc6
> > Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3
> >
> > Problem: after calling the C method "ctime" the global variable 
> > "timezone" is not set correctly with certain TZ environment variables.
> > With TZ=JKL3:10PNM4:40 set, the value of "timezone" is expected to be 
> > 11400, but has a nonsense value of 18000.
> >
> > For a demonstration please see the attched file test.c
> >
> > This is a libc bug (already in libc Bugzilla (see 
> > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2865 )), but can be fixed 
> > in Debian.
>
> Your test program runs fine with 2.3.6 (sid) and 2.4 (experimental)
> here, can you please check?

Yes, but it fails on sarge, the version against which the bug has been 
reported.


--
  .''`.  Aurelien Jarno	            | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
 : :' :  Debian developer           | Electrical Engineer
 `. `'   aurel32@debian.org         | aurelien@aurel32.net
   `-    people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net