Re: zdump not working?

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

paul%whooppee.com@localhost (Paul Goyette) writes:

>On a 5.99.21 system built from sources current as of 2009-10-24 18:29:38 
>UTC, zdump goes into an infinite loop....

That's not an infinite loop (anymore).

>quicky:paul {134} zdump -v -c 2011 US/Pacific | head
>US/Pacific  Sun Jan 27 08:29:52 -219 UTC = Sun Jan 27 00:29:52 -219 PST isdst=0
>US/Pacific  Mon Jan 28 08:29:52 -219 UTC = Mon Jan 28 00:29:52 -219 PST isdst=0
>US/Pacific  Fri Jan  1 07:59:59 -219 UTC = Thu Dec 31 23:59:59 -219 PST isdst=0
>US/Pacific  Fri Jan  1 08:00:00 -219 UTC = Fri Jan  1 00:00:00 -219 PST isdst=0
>US/Pacific  Thu Jan  1 07:59:59 -219 UTC = Wed Dec 31 23:59:59 -219 PST isdst=0
>US/Pacific  Thu Jan  1 08:00:00 -219 UTC = Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 -219 PST isdst=0
>US/Pacific  Tue Jan  1 07:59:59 -219 UTC = Mon Dec 31 23:59:59 -219 PST isdst=0
>US/Pacific  Tue Jan  1 08:00:00 -219 UTC = Tue Jan  1 00:00:00 -219 PST isdst=0
>US/Pacific  Mon Jan  1 07:59:59 -219 UTC = Sun Dec 31 23:59:59 -219 PST isdst=0
>US/Pacific  Mon Jan  1 08:00:00 -219 UTC = Mon Jan  1 00:00:00 -219 PST isdst=0

The year number is actually changing, but it is actually a much larger
negative number and you see only the first 3 digits (-219).

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