On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 09:06:11AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 01:49:36 +0000 > From: "Brian Ginsbach" <ginsb...@netbsd.org> > Message-ID: <20151030014936.3fd4...@cvs.netbsd.org> > > | Reject timezone offsets more than 12 hours (east or west). > > That's definitely incorrect. > > andromeda$ TZ=Pacific/Auckland date +"%c %z" > Fri Oct 30 15:04:08 2015 +1300 > > That's right now (or a minute or two ago). > > Offsets of +1400 have been seen as well, and +1500 isn't out of the > question. I'm not sure if -1300 has ever been used, but probably. > > If you need limits, limit it to +/- 2400
Exactly. It can't be more than 23:59 by ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 definition which is what this is supposed to be parsing. Now just convince the GNU C library folks they've got it wrong. ;-) Brian
