[musl] Re: Weird PST8PDT and EST5EDT behavior on Alpine Linux

[James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>]

>>>>> "GH" == Guy Harris <gharris@sonic.net> writes:

>> Operwrt, at least in general, does not.

GH> I.e., it doesn't provide tzdb files, to save storage space on small embedded devices?

more likely it supports hw that is too small, and so only offers tzdb as optional.

>> (Nor does aix, if anyone still cares.)

GH> According to at least one page on IBM's support web site, "The default timezone format for AIX 6.1 and AIX 7 is Olson Time":

GH> 	https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/managing-time-zone-variable-posix

GH> Is that no longer the case?

probably the other way 'round.

It must be >5 years since i got that clock.

back then every web search i tried about posix time strings pointed to
aix's docs.  and i recall some discussion at that time that aix lacked
tzdb.

if, as you write, they've since corrected the omission, kudos to them.

>> (I must say it was a bit anoying that the library kept the original
>> definition of EST5EDT et alia rathar than moving with the legislation.
>> But only a bit.)

GH> To which library are you referring here?

the clock's (openwrt's) libc.  which reports:

# /lib/libc.so 
musl libc (mipsel-sf)
Version 1.1.16
Dynamic Program Loader
Usage: /lib/libc.so [options] [--] pathname [args]

-JimC
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