Timezone documentation buglet

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Thu Mar 13 21:47:00 GMT 2014


On Thu 13 Mar 2014 16:37:04 Ineiev wrote:
> On 03/13/2014 12:21 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > these are really meant as examples for how to set the var rather than the
> > exact timezone rules.  so we'll always be chasing our tails as governments
> > tweak the laws.  i think we should either put in a caveat near the top
> > that
> > says "these rules might be outdated; they're meant only as illustration of
> > setting the TZ value", or make up places that don't exist at all.
> 
> The point is not that the rule is outdated; the point is that its
> description is not consistent (it says that Friday is the next day after
> Tuesday).

gotcha.  i'll post a patch to libc-alpha.
-mike
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