On 08/30/2011 10:08 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > On 8/30/11 9:53 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: >> strftime() on Mac seems to ignore timezone arguments in struct tm for >> some reason and uses environment TZ instead. Not sure how to address >> that. > > Looking into Mac strftime sources, it says this: > > ** C99 says that the UTC offset must > ** be computed by looking only at > ** tm_isdst. This requirement is > ** incorrect, since it means the code > ** must rely on magic (in this case > ** altzone and timezone), and the > ** magic might not have the correct > ** offset. Doing things correctly is > ** tricky and requires disobeying C99; > ** see GNU C strftime for details. > ** For now, punt and conform to the > ** standard, even though it's incorrect. > > Which means, since we can't touch the environment in php_date.c code, we > have to set TZ env variable for the test to pass, and strftime for Mac > is dependent on TZ env and we can't do a thing about it as it seems.
Right, so this is an XFAIL test on the Mac I guess, although I don't think we have any way to indicate a platform-specific XFAIL. So maybe add a Mac check and make it a SKIP on the Mac. -Rasmus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
