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Message-ID: <5A29B132.2020108@adelielinux.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 15:22:58 -0600
From: "A. Wilcox" <awilfox@...lielinux.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use UTC instead of GMT
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On 07/12/17 10:54, Natanael Copa wrote:
> GMT is a timezone officially used by some countries in Europe and
> Africa. UTC is not a timezone, but a time standard. No country or
> territory officialy uses UTC as local time.
>
> Also, POSIX mentions UTC a few places[1][2] but never GMT (except
> as an example[2] for a timezone)
>
> So it makes more sense to use UTC instead of GMT and return UTC
> when no timezone is set in /etc/localtime or TZ is set to empty.
Would just like to note here that the glib test suite gets really
confused by "GMT" instead of "UTC" because of silly daylight savings.
So not only is this more POSIXly correct, it will actually fix a bug.
(Now I can probably remove tzdata as a test dependency of glib.)
- --arw
- --
A. Wilcox (awilfox)
Project Lead, Adélie Linux
http://adelielinux.org
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