Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:14:21 -0400 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: standards@freebsd.org Cc: des@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT cfg_local.pm Message-ID: <20040608151421.GA14487@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.)
>
Believe it or not, if we don't mind all the mention of GMT in the
file and all the functions/variables being named "gmt<something>" then I
think this is all that's needed:
Index: localtime.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libc/stdtime/localtime.c,v
retrieving revision 1.36
diff -u -r1.36 localtime.c
--- localtime.c 16 Feb 2003 17:29:11 -0000 1.36
+++ localtime.c 8 Jun 2004 04:49:30 -0000
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
static char wildabbr[] = "WILDABBR";
-static const char gmt[] = "GMT";
+static const char gmt[] = "UTC";
struct ttinfo { /* time type information */
long tt_gmtoff; /* GMT offset in seconds */
--------------------------
It seems to be working:
breathed 25 % uname -a
FreeBSD breathed.cse.buffalo.edu 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #2: Tue Jun 8 06:59:48 EDT 2004 root@breathed.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC sparc64
breathed 26 % date
Tue Jun 8 15:04:49 UTC 2004
breathed 27 % setenv TZ GMT
breathed 28 % date
Tue Jun 8 15:04:55 GMT 2004
breathed 29 % setenv TZ EST5EDT
breathed 30 % date
Tue Jun 8 11:05:08 EDT 2004
breathed 31 % unsetenv TZ
breathed 32 % date
Tue Jun 8 15:05:13 UTC 2004
breathed 33 %
--------------------------
I'm new to changes like this... Has this been brought up in enough
places to proceed in a few days (give people a bit more time to decide
to complain)?
--
Ken Smith
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- Theodore Geisel |
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