On 09/22/2017 02:57 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Gnulib also supports MSVC, which interprets the TZ environment variable in its
own way [1][2]. From this doc and from POSIX [3], it looks to me that
UTC0
GMT0
GMT+0
GMT-0
would all be equivalent and portable. Can you confirm this?
All of t
Paul Eggert wrote:
> Unfortunately that patch to Automake's mdate-sh is not portable, as TZ='UTC'
> is
> not a portable setting for the TZ environment variable. POSIX says you're
> supposed to use something like TZ='UTC0' instead. Although TZ='UTC' works
> when
> glibc is used, this is not nec
Hello Paul,
Paul Eggert writes:
> Unfortunately that patch to Automake's mdate-sh is not portable, as
> TZ='UTC' is not a portable setting for the TZ environment
> variable. POSIX says you're supposed to use something like TZ='UTC0'
> instead. Although TZ='UTC' works when glibc is used, this is
Unfortunately that patch to Automake's mdate-sh is not portable, as TZ='UTC' is
not a portable setting for the TZ environment variable. POSIX says you're
supposed to use something like TZ='UTC0' instead. Although TZ='UTC' works when
glibc is used, this is not necessarily true on other POSIX plat
This is a good change but it's not enough unfortunately to make it
reproducible. mdate-sh also needs to support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. I'm
working on a patch for that.
* Mathieu Lirzin (m...@gnu.org) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Reiner Herrmann writes:
>
> > mdate-sh pretty-prints the modification time of
Hello Eric,
Eric Dorland writes:
> This is a good change but it's not enough unfortunately to make it
> reproducible. mdate-sh also needs to support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. I'm
> working on a patch for that.
Thanks for working on that.
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On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:34:54PM +0200, Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
> Applied with slight modifications in commit
> 7c25c996d1c7c212a5981aa0e9c4434b6f33f7b8
Great, thank you!
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mo
Hello,
Reiner Herrmann writes:
> mdate-sh pretty-prints the modification time of a file.
> But it's output can vary depending on the timezone of
> the caller. Someone in timezone GMT-12 will get a different
> result (day) than someone in timezone GMT+12.
>
> As this output is also used to create
