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Re: possible patch for coreutils 5.1.1 failure on OSF 3.2C
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: possible patch for coreutils 5.1.1 failure on OSF 3.2C |
Date: |
21 Jan 2004 13:30:39 -0800 |
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address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:
> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> > + * tests/touch/relative: For 'ls' use TZ=UTC0, not TZ=utc (which isn't
> > + portable).
>
> OOC, is "TZ=UTC" portable?
TZ=UTC is not portable, but TZ=UTC0 has been standardized by POSIX for
many years, and is portable to most pre-POSIX hosts.
Here's the current standard in this area:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html#tag_08_03
Some of the TZ stuff is new in the 2001 edition (e.g., '<zone>' for
internationalization), but the TZ=UTC0 part has been there since the
late 1980s I think.