Re: [PATCH] Re: date timezone question

2004-09-18 Thread Paul Eggert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html#tag_08_03 > `info libc "TZ Variable"` > suggests that implementation dependent TZs should start with a colon. That advice is admirable but is quite rarely followed. In practice, people almost invar

Re: [PATCH] Re: date timezone question

2004-09-17 Thread P
Paul Eggert wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK I've attached a patch that addresses question 1 above. Note this is not for merging, just for disussion really. The user-interface change sounds good, but the implementation isn't quite right. You need to temporarily set TZ all the while mktime is

Re: [PATCH] Re: date timezone question

2004-05-10 Thread P
Paul Eggert wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK I've attached a patch that addresses question 1 above. Note this is not for merging, just for disussion really. The user-interface change sounds good cool, that's all I wanted to determine with the patch. but the implementation isn't quite right. I

Re: [PATCH] Re: date timezone question

2004-05-08 Thread Paul Eggert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > OK I've attached a patch that addresses question 1 above. > Note this is not for merging, just for disussion really. The user-interface change sounds good, but the implementation isn't quite right. You need to temporarily set TZ all the while mktime is being run; it i

[PATCH] Re: date timezone question

2004-05-08 Thread P
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q1. Why is there a difference in the parsing of $TZ and --date ... timezone ? Q2. Why is a warning not printed when an invalid $TZ is set? $ TZ=America/Los_Angeles date Wed Mar 31 07:21:51 PST 2004 Missing info: $date --date "09:00 America/L