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Re: First draft of the Y2038 design document
- From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- To: Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 13:59:00 -0700
- Subject: Re: First draft of the Y2038 design document
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On 10/27/2015 01:56 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
A program which does not use functions which
are specified to depend on the TZ environment variable has
well-defined behavior regardless of the value set in the TZ variable
and whether it matches the POSIX timezone form.
That's not what the standard says, and it's not what common practice does.