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Diffstat (limited to 'time/strftime.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | time/strftime.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/time/strftime.c b/time/strftime.c index c53f20872c..891d301f5c 100644 --- a/time/strftime.c +++ b/time/strftime.c @@ -424,15 +424,13 @@ strftime (s, maxsize, format, tp) const char *f; zone = NULL; -#if !defined _LIBC && HAVE_TM_ZONE - /* XXX We have some problems here. First, the string pointed to by - tm_zone is dynamically allocated while loading the zone data. But - when another zone is loaded since the information in TP were - computed this would be a stale pointer. - The second problem is the POSIX test suite which assumes setting +#if HAVE_TM_ZONE + /* The POSIX test suite assumes that setting the environment variable TZ to a new value before calling strftime() will influence the result (the %Z format) even if the information in - TP is computed with a totally different time zone. --drepper@gnu */ + TP is computed with a totally different time zone. + This is bogus: though POSIX allows bad behavior like this, + POSIX does not require it. Do the right thing instead. */ zone = (const char *) tp->tm_zone; #endif #if HAVE_TZNAME |