[tz] Question about bug seen in OpenBSD and FreeBSD related to tzname

Andras Farkas deepbluemistake at gmail.com
Sat Nov 23 06:50:06 UTC 2019


On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 10:48 PM Garrett Wollman <wollman at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> That is in fact the position FreeBSD has long taken. We implement the historic BSD timezone(3) function.
Yep!  timezone(3) is not only historic to the BSDs, but also existed in Unix v7:
http://web.cuzuco.com/~cuzuco/v7/v7vol1.pdf
(page 271 in the PDF)
http://man.cat-v.org/unix_7th/3/ctime


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