standards/24590: timezone function not compatible witn Single Unix Spec v2

Garrett Wollman wollman at csail.mit.edu
Mon Jan 31 17:02:31 UTC 2011


<<On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:30:15 GMT, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com> said:

>      This attached patch to the timezone(3) manpage makes the XSI
>  conformance `issue' more apparent (it might not be a good final
>  solution, but at least it documents the problem outside of GNATs).

I've never considered this to be an issue.  BSD is not System V; the
XSI *option* in POSIX memorializes old System V mistakes that we have
no need to copy.

-GAWollman



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