GNU bug report logs - #9614
date: warn on invalid TZ string (was: date ignoring wrong

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Message #66 received at 9614 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 9614 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9614: date ignoring wrong TZ values
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 02:02:20 -0800

Assaf Gordon wrote:

> gnulib's tzalloc implementation should be greatly expanded to be able
> to decode the operating system's local timezome?
> (or perhaps the timezone management code copied from glibc?)

That's what I was thinking of, except that it'd be better to extend glibc to 
support tzalloc etc. That code could be shared between glibc and gnulib.

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