On 2022-08-01T16:37:16TAI, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> So why don't you come over with something understandable directly.
>​
I thought i did...

> What has %60 to do with it?
>​
tm_gmtoff is the GMT offset in seconds...
So tm_gmtoff%60 shows u,
if there is a fraction of a minute in that offset...

> So what you made the exim people do is that you force
> interpretation of the local time as UTC if local seconds and UTC
> seconds differ?  But this is surely wrong,
>​
No...

> since any timezone can do so potentially!
>​
Unlikely... TAI is the only zoneinfo I know of that does that...
u can test that with this command:
% TZ=MET date +%::z
there should be a double O in the end...

>   $ grep -E '[[:digit:]+:[[:digit:]]+:[[:digit:]]+' \
>     /usr/share/zoneinfo/tzdata.zi | wc -l
>   624
> 
I dont know what that is...
There is no tzdata.zi on my box...
And it is very unlikely that 624 zoneinfos have a GMT offset
that makes the RFC5322 timestamps incorrect.
The people would have told you before... most likely...

-arne

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