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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2023-05-07 09:28:57 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2023-05-07 09:29:48 -0700 |
| commit | 9f205ff9624b8e10b4331432c59bc732b8c1a7fe (patch) | |
| tree | 2acddca4beb92bcf51c889fed33915b998889280 | |
| parent | c86821aa49312abab5c6f9b7941c038797b6c9a5 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-9f205ff9624b8e10b4331432c59bc732b8c1a7fe.tar.gz | |
Warn against bogus TZ settings
* doc/parse-datetime.texi (Specifying time zone rules):
Warn against TZ="UTC=5".
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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2023-05-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Warn against bogus TZ settings + * doc/parse-datetime.texi (Specifying time zone rules): + Warn against TZ="UTC=5". + 2023-05-05 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> dirfd: Add tests. diff --git a/doc/parse-datetime.texi b/doc/parse-datetime.texi index d54d7660c8..ec0160da8e 100644 --- a/doc/parse-datetime.texi +++ b/doc/parse-datetime.texi @@ -574,6 +574,9 @@ This example uses the somewhat-confusing POSIX convention for rules. and the time zone is 7 hours west of Greenwich, and @samp{TZ="<+0530>-5:30"} says that the time zone abbreviation is @samp{+0530} and the time zone is 5 hours 30 minutes east of Greenwich. +(One should never use a setting like @samp{TZ="UTC-5"}, since +this would incorrectly imply that local time is five hours east of +Greenwich and the time zone is called ``UTC''.) Although trickier POSIX @env{TZ} settings like @samp{TZ="<-05>+5<-04>,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2"} can specify some daylight saving regimes, location-based settings like |