Re: date/strftime() returning wrong timezone name

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On my 8.99/35 system from last month I get

	$  TZ=Australia/Melbourne date; TZ=NZ date
	Wed Apr 17 16:21:31 AEST 2019
	Wed Apr 17 18:21:31 NZST 2019
	$

On an 8.99.37 within qemu (built only a couple days ago), I get

# TZ=Australia/Melbourne date; TZ=NZ date
Wed Apr 17 16:24:10 LMT 2019
Wed Apr 17 18:24:10 LMT 2019
#


I'd guess that a recent import of the latest tzcode has gone awry.




On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, Geoff Wing wrote:

> Hi,
> running /sbin/dmesg and /bin/date I am seeing a timezone name of "LMT" instead
> of my normal "AEST"
>
> Copying "date" and my zoneinfo file from a working computer, I still see bad
> info.
>
> > From -current (compiled myself and from nyftp snapshot):
> % TZ=Australia/Melbourne date; TZ=NZ date
> Wed Apr 17 16:04:16 LMT 2019
> Wed Apr 17 16:04:16 LMT 2019
>
> > From a month ago:
> % TZ=Australia/Melbourne date; TZ=NZ date
> Wed Apr 17 16:03:54 AEST 2019
> Wed Apr 17 16:03:54 NZST 2019
>
> "LMT" was the correct timezone name 125-150 years ago for those zones.
>
> Is this reproducible for anyone else or something unique to me?
>
> I see there have been some recent changes to strftime() so perhaps
> those are the cause of my problem.
>
> Regards,
> Geoff
>
> !DSPAM:5cb6c3a8134038455320440!

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