[swbz 29035] mktime vs non-DST

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Fri Aug 19 22:04:13 GMT 2022


On 8/19/22 11:15, DJ Delorie wrote:
> Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
>> Perhaps see what FreeBSD etc. do with your examples? That might be helpful.
> 
> FreeBSD does this, which matches your patched version:

Not too surprising, as FreeBSD uses code derived from tzcode, which has 
done things that way since the 1980s (long before I became the tzcode 
maintainer). I wrote the Gnulib patch with this longstanding behavior at 
the back of my mind.


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