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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2017-11-28 14:30:25 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2017-11-28 15:04:15 -0800
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Port better to CentOS 5
Problems reported by Tom G. Christensen in: https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2017-11/msg00053.html * doc/glibc-functions/strverscmp.texi (strverscmp): Document strverscmp bug with glibc 2.9 and earlier. * doc/posix-functions/tzset.texi (tzset): Document that TZ with angle brackets is POSIX-2001 and later. * tests/test-nstrftime.c: Include unistd.h. (TZ_ANGLE_BRACKETS_SHOULD_WORK): New macro. (TZ): Use it to skip tests with angle brackets in TZ, for older systems.
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diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/tzset.texi b/doc/posix-functions/tzset.texi
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@@ -28,4 +28,7 @@ support for @code{tz} database settings like
@code{TZ='America/New_York'}. Even this subset does not work on
applications built via the Universal Windows Platform, as it does not
make environment variables like @env{TZ} available to applications.
+@item
+Older POSIX platforms do not support angle brackets in @env{TZ} values,
+as this feature was added in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001.
@end itemize