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Re: [PATCH] t/t0006: specify timezone as EST5 not EST to comply with POSIX

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 7, 2010, 09:48 UTC
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On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 01:34, Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:
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> From: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
>
> POSIX requires that both the timezone "standard" and "offset" be specified
> in the TZ environment variable.  This causes a problem on IRIX which does
> not understand the timezone 'EST'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
> ---
>
> I guess 'EST' is an alias? for EST5EDT?  Linux and Solaris both grok EST
> just fine.  POSIX says the offset is required.  I don't see any mention of
> aliases.

Same on the Cygwin installation I happen to have here: it doesn't recongnize EST, but does know about EST5.

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Message 5 of 11 in “t0006: test timezone parsing”
  1. 1/2 t0006: test timezone parsingJeff King, Jul 4, 2010
  2. 2/2 parse_date: fix signedness in timezone calculationJeff King, Jul 4, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2010
  4. t/t0006: specify timezone as EST5 not EST to comply with POSIXBrandon Casey, Jul 6, 2010
  5. Alex RiesenJul 7, 2010
  6. Jeff KingJul 7, 2010
  7. Andreas SchwabJul 7, 2010
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2010
  9. Jeff KingJul 6, 2010
  10. Jeff KingJul 6, 2010
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 7, 2010

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