[Bug 168862] [tzcode] [patch] tzname set incorrectly

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Jonathan M Davis <freebsd.bugs at jmdavisprog.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Jonathan M Davis <freebsd.bugs at jmdavisprog.com> ---
This bug still exists in FreeBSD 10.1, and it's been almost three years since
this was reported, which seems like a long time for this to be sitting around -
particularly considering that a patch has been attached to it.

And it affects a _lot_ more time zones than just "America/Los_Angeles".
Comparing what tzname says to what's in the TZ files themselves (using D's
std.datetime time zone code to read the TZ files), I'm seeing 133 time zones
that have their tzname[0] wrong, and 249 that have their tzname[1] wrong.

Curiously, the date command seems to print out the correct time zone names (at
least in "America/Los_Angeles"), so I guess that date doesn't use tzname, and
that may be why more folks haven't complained, but this needs to get fixed.

What would it take for the patch to be reviewed and merged in? I'm not set up
to develop on FreeBSD, so I don't know how to test the changes (and I'd really
prefer to not have to figure out how to set that up), but from what I can tell
from looking at the code, it looks like the change in the patch is correct.

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