Re: timezone variable not set correctly, bug blocking LSB Conformance
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?
Denis
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