Hi William, This patch also does not apply. Some comments also below. On 01/29/2015 01:13 AM, J William Piggott wrote: > > Based upon reviewing the glibc source, the posixrules file is being used > for very specific TZ strings that can be represented as: > > [:]stdoffsetdst[offset][,] > > If anything follows the above string, even invalid data, posixrules will > not be used. Below is some shell output demonstrating this. > > $ TZ="NZST-12:00:00NZDT-13:00:00,ANYTHING" \ >> strace -eopen date 2>&1 | grep -Ei 'posixrules|jan' > Thu Jan 29 06:53:35 NZDT 2015 > > $ TZ="NZST-12:00:00NZDT-13:00:00," \ >> strace -eopen date 2>&1 | grep -Ei 'posixrules|jan' > open("/usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 > Thu Jan 29 05:54:58 NZST 2015 > > Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@xxxxxxx> > --- > man3/tzset.3 | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/man3/tzset.3 b/man3/tzset.3 > index 9011e5f..2e91fd8 100644 > --- a/man3/tzset.3 > +++ b/man3/tzset.3 > @@ -201,6 +201,11 @@ The system timezone file. > The system timezone database directory. > .TP > .B /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules > +When a TZ string includes a dst timezone without anything following it, > +then this file is used for the start/end rules. It is in the Please start new sentences on new source lines. (See man-pages(7).) > +.B tzfile(5) > +format. By default, the zoneinfo Makefile hard links it to the As above. > +.IR America/New_York " tzfile." > .PP > Above are the current standard file locations, but they are > configurable when glibc is compiled. > Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html