[Bug 192016] New: Incorrect result for %s in strftime

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192016

            Bug ID: 192016
           Summary: Incorrect result for %s in strftime
           Product: Base System
           Version: 10.0-STABLE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: Needs Triage
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: bin
          Assignee: freebsd-bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: quae at daurnimator.com

The %s specifier in strftime doesn't respect timezones.

Example:

    #include <time.h>
    #include <stdio.h>

    int main() {
        time_t t = 1234567890;
        struct tm *tmp = gmtime(&t);
        char output[200];
        strftime(output, 200, "%s", tmp);
        printf("%s\n",output);
        return 0;
    }

Run with a non UTC timezone. e.g. TZ=GMT+9
Output will be 1234600290 instead of expected 1234567890

Location in BSD's libc:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/10.0.0/lib/libc/stdtime/strftime.c?view=markup#l312

This bug also exists in glibc:
http://fossies.org/dox/glibc-2.19/strftime__l_8c_source.html#l01133
Bug filed at https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17189

It does not occur in musl:
http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/time/strftime.c?id=ac0acd569e01735fc6052d43fdf57f3a07c93f3d#n127

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