This wound up being discussed a bit on the cvs-all mailing list and the general concensus there seemd to be that the system's default time zone would be more "politically correct" if it were UTC instead of GMT. Garrett directed me to standards_at_ and so far there have been no complaints there. Garrett himself didn't object to it either. So, I'll let this simmer a few more days in case someone has any objections. If nobody speaks up I'll commit this, which seems to be sufficent to change the default Time Zone to UTC instead of GMT. I'm a bit surprised this is all there is to it but I have a machine running with this patch and it seems to be working right. If anyone knows of any landmines I'm missing let me know please. [ Thoughts about whether it's worth the effort to more or less replace all occurences of "gmt" or "GMT" in that file with "utc" and "UTC" are welcome but straight to me please, no sense discussing that on list. ] Index: lib/libc/stdtime/localtime.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libc/stdtime/localtime.c,v retrieving revision 1.36 diff -u -r1.36 localtime.c --- lib/libc/stdtime/localtime.c 16 Feb 2003 17:29:11 -0000 1.36 +++ lib/libc/stdtime/localtime.c 8 Jun 2004 04:49:30 -0000 _at__at_ -70,7 +70,7 _at__at_ static char wildabbr[] = "WILDABBR"; -static const char gmt[] = "GMT"; +static const char gmt[] = "UTC"; struct ttinfo { /* time type information */ long tt_gmtoff; /* GMT offset in seconds */ -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith_at_cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |Received on Wed Jun 09 2004 - 09:50:37 UTC
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