Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:03:41 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.5.1 posix conformance for strftime() Message-ID: <20040324160341.GG17229@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Mar 24 20:13, Ghanshyam wrote: > Hi all, > > I found some problem in strftime system call with respect to following > assertion defined in "IEEE std 2003.1 -1992 Test methods for measuring > conformance to POSIX-part1" document: > > 07(A) A call to strftime() sets the external variable tzname[0] to point > to the standard time-zone designation and > tzname[1] to point to the summer time-zone designation corresponding to > the current value of the TZ > environment variable. > > > ********It doesnt set the values of tzname[0] and tzname[1]. The old > values are retained. > > I have gone through the code and found that perhaps code is not written to > set the values of tzname[0] and tzname[1] according to TZ environment > variable. Isnt it? While you're looking through the Cygwin source code anyway, why don't you go just one step further and contribute patches? See http://cygwin.com/contrib.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/