Pádraig Brady wrote:
Oh Solaris has the same issue?
Sorry, I thought your earlier messages said so; if not then please ignore my
noise about Solaris.
So you mean warn, rather than fail or ignore in this case?
This depends on whether the failure is due to gnulib (in which case we should
fail, and should fix the gnulib bug) or in the C library (in which case we
should just warn). If on Darwin the shell command
TZ='NZST-12NZDT,M9.5.0,M4.1.0/3' date -r0
outputs the string "Thu Jan 1 12:00:00 NZST 1970", then the C library is
clearly buggy. If not, we should investigate further. The above example assumes
Darwin 'date', not GNU date, so it uses the -r0 option; GNU date would have -d@0
instead.
