Re: [PATCH] t/t0006: specify timezone as EST5 not EST to comply with POSIX

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On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 01:34, Brandon Casey <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Brandon Casey <drafnel@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> POSIX requires that both the timezone "standard" and "offset" be specified
> in the TZ environment variable.  This causes a problem on IRIX which does
> not understand the timezone 'EST'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> I guess 'EST' is an alias? for EST5EDT?  Linux and Solaris both grok EST
> just fine.  POSIX says the offset is required.  I don't see any mention of
> aliases.

Same on the Cygwin installation I happen to have here: it doesn't
recongnize EST,
but does know about EST5.
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