Subject: Re: bug#9614: date ignoring wrong TZ values

From: Sandro Santilli <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:44:01 +0200

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:19:22AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > $ TZ=GB-Eire+1 date
> 
> A POSIX timezone name cannot have dashes.

Doesn't all these "can't have" and "undefined" specs mean
we do can warn or error out w/out breakin POSIX compatibility ?

> > $ TZ=Japan+1 date
> 
> This is a well-formed POSIX timezone.

Meaning UTC+1 ?

> > $ TZ=Japan date
> 
> This is a non-POSIX timezone that happens to match an Olson timezone.

non-POSIX means illegal ?

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