Re: [HACKERS] timezone problem?

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> > On my RH-5.2 box, "JST" is not in /usr/share/zoneinfo. A non-existant
> > TZ evaluates to be GMT, but the system reports the string you gave
> > it!! I don't recall ever running across this before.
> 
> Ugh.  RedHat's not the only one: on my HPUX 10 box,
> 
> $ date
> Thu Jan 20 11:13:26 EST 2000
> $ TZ=GMT date
> Thu Jan 20 16:13:30 GMT 2000
> $ TZ=ZZZ date
> Thu Jan 20 16:13:35 ZZZ 2000
> $ TZ=foo date
> Thu Jan 20 16:13:53 foo 2000
> 
> This may be a fairly widespread bug^H^H^Hbizarre behavior.

Odd.  Here's how FreeBSD acts:

$ TZ=GMT date
Thu Jan 20 16:47:29 GMT 2000
$ TZ=foo date
Thu Jan 20 16:47:36 GMT 2000
$ TZ=EDT date
Thu Jan 20 16:47:47 GMT 2000
$ TZ=EST date
Thu Jan 20 11:47:54 EST 2000
$ TZ=PST date
Thu Jan 20 16:48:03 GMT 2000
$ TZ=ZZZ date
Thu Jan 20 16:48:09 GMT 2000
$ TZ=JST date
Thu Jan 20 16:49:00 GMT 2000
$ TZ=MST date
Thu Jan 20 09:50:05 MST 2000
$ TZ=CST date
Thu Jan 20 16:49:32 GMT 2000

Strange, it does MST and EST but not CST and PST.  

Vince.
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