Sandro Santilli <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:19:22AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > $ TZ=Japan+1 date >> >> This is a well-formed POSIX timezone. > > Meaning UTC+1 ?
The timzone name has no meaning, only the offset matters. >> > $ TZ=Japan date >> >> This is a non-POSIX timezone that happens to match an Olson timezone. > > non-POSIX means illegal ? It means unspecified (but not undefined), ie. the implementation may reject it or do something sensible. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, [email protected] GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
