mktime + UTC problem

Daniel Drake ddrake@brontes3d.com
Mon Nov 6 19:38:00 GMT 2006


On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 09:58 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> One thing that strikes me is that within glibc, TZ="" is equivalent to
> TZ="Universal".  Perhaps the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/Universal is
> corrupted on your troublesome system?  That would explain it right
> there.

Ah, thanks!! Sorry for the noise, this was a screwup on my side, a
script had overwritten the Universal file (copied a file
onto /etc/localtime which was a symlink to Universal)

Daniel




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