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Subject: Re: Error in interpreting posix timezone TZ environment
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On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 01:14:29AM +0530, vlse wrote:
> musl-libc stable 1.0.3 has wrong implementation of posix timezone TZ environmental variable.
> For e.g. if I set TZ="IST-5:30" and use busybox date command
> compiled with musl-libc it's show One hour early than actual. Same
> with c code using asctime from musl-libc.
> 
> Any known fix.

Can you show the expected and actual output of the date command, both
with TZ=IST-5:30 and TZ=GMT?

Rich