First draft of the Y2038 design document

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Tue Oct 27 20:59:00 GMT 2015


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.



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