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Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 19:03:01 -0500
From: James Cloos <cloos@...loos.com>
To: Guy Harris <gharris@...ic.net>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com, Time zone mailing list <tz@...a.org>, Russ
Allbery <eagle@...ie.org>, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Subject: Re: Weird PST8PDT and EST5EDT behavior on Alpine Linux
>>>>> "GH" == Guy Harris <gharris@...ic.net> writes:
>> Operwrt, at least in general, does not.
GH> I.e., it doesn't provide tzdb files, to save storage space on small embedded devices?
more likely it supports hw that is too small, and so only offers tzdb as optional.
>> (Nor does aix, if anyone still cares.)
GH> According to at least one page on IBM's support web site, "The default timezone format for AIX 6.1 and AIX 7 is Olson Time":
GH> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/managing-time-zone-variable-posix
GH> Is that no longer the case?
probably the other way 'round.
It must be >5 years since i got that clock.
back then every web search i tried about posix time strings pointed to
aix's docs. and i recall some discussion at that time that aix lacked
tzdb.
if, as you write, they've since corrected the omission, kudos to them.
>> (I must say it was a bit anoying that the library kept the original
>> definition of EST5EDT et alia rathar than moving with the legislation.
>> But only a bit.)
GH> To which library are you referring here?
the clock's (openwrt's) libc. which reports:
# /lib/libc.so
musl libc (mipsel-sf)
Version 1.1.16
Dynamic Program Loader
Usage: /lib/libc.so [options] [--] pathname [args]
-JimC
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James Cloos <cloos@...loos.com>
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