[tz] bug in export TZ where day light savings spans Dec 31st?

David Singleton dsingleton at mvista.com
Tue Jun 5 15:07:30 UTC 2012


On Jun 5, 2012, at 2:33 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> david singleton <dsingleton at mvista.com> writes:
> 
>> When I use the example from the timezone man page to define,  and export
>> a local TZ variable:
>> 
>> export  TZ="NZST-12.00:00NZDT-13:00:00,M10.1.0,M3.3.0"
>                      ^
> 
> This doesn't match the POSIX format, so you get unspecified behaviour.
> Change that to a colon.

you are right.   The man page for timezone has the dot instead of colon typo.

thanks for your help

David

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