Re: REG_STARTEND (regex)

[Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 09:15:26PM -0400, bfdamkoehler wrote:
> On 06/11/2014 09:40 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> >I think the issue is just that you don't have a complete POSIX TZ rule
> >for EST5EDT written. With TZ=EST5EDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2 (corresponding
> >to the current rules in effect for this timezone) I get the expected
> >output. Without specifying the full rule like this, I don't think you
> >can expect the right behavior since it changes every few years.
> >However, I think musl is also wrong not to have some sort of
> >meaningful default. I'll look into it more.
> I get the correct results using your TZ environment variable.
> 
> Actually, when I first tested with musl I didn't have a TZ
> environment variable and the time was off by 4 hours. Setting it
> seemed to fix the issue at first.
> 
> My linux machine has the timezone was set by the redhat/centos
> system-config-date to New York (I changed it to Detroit since then)
> and the "system uses UTC is not checked". This is a binary file but
> it ends in EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0.
> 
> Should musl be using /etc/localtime if TZ is not defined?

See commit f616294914e7c289791d856dca636bbccad5fef7.

Rich