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Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0" instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
author Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
date Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:27:52 +0000
parents d086e834be7d
children 753b9750d5a5
files m4/mktime.m4
diffstat 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/m4/mktime.m4
+++ b/m4/mktime.m4
@@ -50,7 +50,12 @@
 {
   /* glibc (up to about 1998-10-07) failed this test) */
   struct tm tm;
-  putenv ("TZ=America/Vancouver");
+
+  /* Use the portable POSIX.1 specification "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
+     instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver" in order to detect the bug even
+     on systems that don't support the Olson extension, or don't have the
+     full zoneinfo tables installed.  */
+  putenv ("TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0");
   tm.tm_year = 98;
   tm.tm_mon = 3;
   tm.tm_mday = 5;