Reuben, On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.05-1 > Severity: normal > > "This function is automatically called by the other time conversion > functions that depend on the time zone." > > This is true but not complete: as far as I can tell, tzset is called > once only, hence if you change the TZ environment variable after calling > a function that depends on it, tzset will already have been called, and > you have to call it again.
Can you provide some more supporting information please. E.g., a simple test program that demonstrates the point, or some source code references/analysis? Cheers, Michael > -- System Information: > Debian Release: lenny/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on: > ii manpages 3.05-1 Manual pages about using a > GNU/Lin > > manpages-dev recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages manpages-dev suggests: > ii man-db [man-browser] 2.5.2-3 on-line manual pager > > -- no debconf information > > > > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
