Re: date/strftime() returning wrong timezone name

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20190417061128.GA1381%primenet.com.au@localhost>,
Geoff Wing  <gcw%pobox.com@localhost> 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.

Yup, I am the culprit... I will look into it.

christos