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Message-ID: <20121026122636.GX254@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:26:36 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: localtime() isn't local
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 02:00:27PM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> * Yoran Heling <info@...hel.nl> [2012-10-26 10:34:06 +0200]:
> > Ah, I didn't realize that the use of /etc/localtime wasn't part of
> > POSIX. I don't have a TZ variable set, so that explains the output.
> > TZ=CEST didn't work, but TZ=CEST-2 did the trick.
> >
> > This is quite a bummer, though. I use musl to create static binaries for
> > Linux, and every glibc-based distribution (i.e. the vast majority) uses
> > /etc/localtime rather than the TZ variable. :-(
> >
>
> i guess you can hack the implementation at
> http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/tz/tz-link.htm
Adding zoneinfo support to musl is on the agenda, but not based on the
"official" source which is bloated and invalid C. A while back I was
reading the (very minimal) spec and it doesn't look that bad, but it
was complex enough that I didn't write the support code immediately.
I'll get around to it sometime, sooner rather than later if there's
really a demand for it.
Rich
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