Re: strftime %Z returning empty string

["A. Wilcox" <awilfox@adelielinux.org>]

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On 31/08/17 15:23, jacob@welshcomputing.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been working through the Python test suite (2.7.13) on musl 
> (1.1.16). There were a couple over-zealous tests involving errno,
> and locale tests that I'd expect to fail, but one set of failures I
> haven't yet been able to rule out as a musl bug. Symptom:
> 
>>>> time.strftime('%Z')
> 'GMT'
>>>> time.strftime('%Z', time.localtime())
> ''
> 
> The Python docs say these should be equivalent.
> 
> The implementation is about what you'd expect: if the second
> argument to time.strftime() is omitted, it passes the results of C
> localtime() directly to strftime(); otherwise it builds a "struct
> tm" by "memset"ing to '\0' then assigning the public fields (which
> of course don't include a time zone).
> 
> Bug? Bad assumption on their part? Nonsensical standard?
> 
> Thanks, J. Welsh


%Z is a glibc extension.  I don't believe musl supports it.

Best,
- --arw

- -- 
A. Wilcox (awilfox)
Project Lead, Adélie Linux
http://adelielinux.org
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