Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 23:26:33 -0400 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: des@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT cfg_local.pm Message-ID: <20040608032633.GF25445@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <200406080316.i583GECP038131@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20040607.082534.17038697.imp@bsdimp.com> <200406071712.i57HC805042166@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20040608024746.GB25445@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <200406080316.i583GECP038131@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:16:14PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> [Moving this discussion to -standards.]
>
> <<On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 22:47:46 -0400, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> said:
>
> > It sounds like it would be better for the system to say "UTC" instead
> > of "GMT" in the absence of /etc/localtime. Does anyone disagree?
>
> I don't think POSIX reaches this question. It says that there shall
> be a default timezone used when the TZ variable is not set, but
> doesn't say how this is established or what it should be, so I'm fine
> with that. (But it will be a challenge to find the right bits in
> localtime.c to frob in order to make it happen, as I just found when I
> looked.)
Thanks - I should have realized this was where to ask. :-(
Since I brought it up I'm willing to try and find what needs to be
changed unless someone else feels a burning need to do it themselves,
I don't want to step on toes. If it's me I would be assuming this is
something that would need to happen before -current becomes -stable
and that it would not be retro-fitted to 4.X since it has the potential
for breakage.
--
Ken Smith
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