Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 08:36:58 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: pete@gatekeeper.ent-img.com (Pete Carah) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: timezone problems Message-ID: <199505060636.IAA29861@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <m0s7YI0-0004lZC@gatekeeper.ent-img.com> from "Pete Carah" at May 5, 95 06:04:10 pm
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As Pete Carah wrote: > > I figured out what I did to cause my seg faults, but it might be > nice if zoneinfo and family was a bit more forgiving of bad > zoneinfo files... (I was setting TZ to "Pacific" which turned > out to be a directory; this caused seg faults whenever trying > to print a time :-( Problem is fixed but some other reaction > might be nice to non-experienced users. Which system version? j@uriah 337% date Sat May 6 08:33:20 MET DST 1995 j@uriah 338% env TZ=DoEsNoTeXiSt date Sat May 6 06:33:23 1995 j@uriah 339% env TZ=Pacific date Sat May 6 06:33:29 1995 j@uriah 340% env TZ=.. date Sat May 6 06:33:32 1995 j@uriah 341% env TZ=EDT date Sat May 6 06:33:48 1995 j@uriah 342% env TZ=EST5EDT date Sat May 6 02:34:14 EDT 1995 For any unreasonable value, it falls back to UTC, without displaying a timezone name. j@uriah 343% uname -a FreeBSD uriah.heep.sax.de BUILT-19950429 FreeBSD BUILT-19950429 #20: Sat Apr 29 22:47:04 MET DST 1995 bin@uriah.heep.sax.de:/home/bin/sys/compile/URIAH i386 -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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