Re: [HACKERS] Need confirmation of "Posix time standard" on FreeBSD

Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>Someone mentioned recently that a timezone style of "GMT+0800" was on
>their FreeBSD machine as an allowed time zone, that its behavior was
>the same as the usual ISO8601 timezone of "-0800", and that this
>conformed to some sort of Posix standard.
>
>I had posted patches for this, and have just modified the patch to be
>cleaner and more robust.
>
>Before committing this (or at least before completing our upcoming
>beta period), I'd like confirmation that this actually matches
>expected behavior for a machine implementing a "GMT+0800" (or similar)
>time zone, and that it is indeed a Posix standard? Anyone??
>
This seems to be the case for me.

Debian GNU/Linux, using libc6 version 2.1.2:

linda:olly $ date
Sun Feb 6 23:55:52 GMT 2000
linda:olly $ TZ=GMT+8
linda:olly $ date
Sun Feb 6 15:56:26 GMT 2000
linda:olly $ TZ=posix/Etc/GMT+8
linda:olly $ date
Sun Feb 6 15:59:22 GMT+8 2000

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