On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 12:28:21AM +0200, Sebastian Benoit wrote: > Claudio Jeker(cje...@diehard.n-r-g.com) on 2022.04.20 15:12:57 +0200: > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 03:00:15PM +0200, Theo Buehler wrote: > > > Found this when looking at the timezone issue a couple of weeks back and > > > then forgot about it: > > > > > > This setenv() + localtime() looks like a hack to me and I don't really > > > understand why it should be preferable over using gmtime() directly. The > > > only change in output that I can see is that it causes %Z to print GMT > > > instead of UTC, so I modified the format string accordingly (but I have > > > no strong opinion on this). > > > > UTC is the proper timezone here. Not sure why gmtime results in %Z to > > return GMT since gmtime converts into UTC. On the other hand timezones > > in struct tm are strange so it probably just defaults to GMT for a 0 > > offset time. > > well, no. > UTC is not a timezone. UTC is a time standard. > GMT is the correct timezone.
But we want the time standard and not the GMT timezone here. At least I prefer UTC over GMT (because I had cases where GMT was used where BST should have been used). UTC is always clear because it is the time standard. -- :wq Claudio
