On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:03:23AM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote: > On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Brian Ginsbach wrote: > > >Module Name: src > >Committed By: ginsbach > >Date: Fri Oct 30 01:49:36 UTC 2015 > > > >Modified Files: > > src/lib/libc/time: strptime.c > > > >Log Message: > >Reject timezone offsets more than 12 hours (east or west). > > > Why?
Probably the worst of reasons. Trying to pass a GNU libc strptime test. It looks like ISO 8601 limits a timezone offset to a time-hour of 00-23 and time-minute of 00-59. I'll make a correction shortly. > > According to www.timeanddate.com the timezone for Christmas Island (aka > Kiritmati, in the country of Kiribati, and located at 152'N / 15720'W), > their timezone is UTC+14. As I recall, the international dateline was > deliberately set to be east of Christmas Island so that it would be in the > same day as the rest of the country of Kirbati (the former Phoenix Islands, > IIRC). > > Please revert. I'll fix it instead as UTC+24 is invalid (ISO 8601, RFC 3339, etc).