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

[Ian Abbott]

On 2012-06-05 16:07, David Singleton wrote:
>
> 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.

For the record, that was fixed in release 3.33 of the Linux man-pages.

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