[tz] Buggy %z behaviour in strftime

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Paul Eggert wrote in
 <7bfb9e88-eeb0-7cd1-b57b-b648558c1ddc at cs.ucla.edu>:
 |On 7/18/22 09:03, Paul Eggert wrote:
 |> 
 |> I suppose someone should file a defect report with the C standardization 
 |> committee.
 |
 |I found what I hope is the correct email address for that (it's not 
 |well-advertised) and submitted the following bug report:

  ...
 |Subject: strftime %z and %Z depend on more than just tm_isdst
 ...
 |Some implementations (e.g., AIX, Solaris) infer %z and %Z output from 
 |tm_year, tm_mon, tm_mday, tm_hour, tm_min, tm_sec, and tm_isdst, and 
 |therefore sometimes guess %z or %Z output incorrectly when the clock 
 |moves back from one standard time to another (e.g., Iran at the end of 
 |the year 1978). These implementations typically also depend on the 
 |current setting of the TZ environment variable.
 |
 |Other implementations (e.g., FreeBSD, GNU/Linux) get the UT offset and 
 |abbreviation from struct tm members tm_gmtoff and tm_zone that are not 
 |specified by the C standard. These implementations do not have to guess 
 |%z and %Z output; however, they require that the nonstandard members be 
 |filled in correctly by localtime or equivalent.

The next POSIX standard at least will support these two members:

  https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1533

  ...

--steffen
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