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Derek Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mark D. Baushke wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$ export TZ=Asia/Calcutta [EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$
> > date Fri Apr
> > 15 07:01:59 2005
>
>
> ...
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$ TZ=Pacific/Honolulu date Fri Apr 15 07:07:12
> > 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$
> >
> > That said, I doubt if this will be a big problem given that CRAY
> > doesn't yet support client/server as I have only been able to get
> > :local: to work on it.
>
>
> Hrm. Does the Cray exhibit similar behavior to the following for
> unrecognized time zones? The POSIX spec doesn't really seem to specify...
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ccvs-merge]$ date +%Z
> EDT
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ccvs-merge]$ TZ=Asia/Calcutta date +%Z
> IST
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ccvs-merge]$ TZ=Asia/Garbage date +%Z
> Asia/Garbage
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ccvs-merge]$
>
>
> I could write a simple test and skip the TZ dependent tests when
> `TZ=REGION/CITY date +%Z` = "REGION/CITY".
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$ date +%Z
MET
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$ TZ=Asia/Calcutta date +%Z
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$ TZ=Asia/Garbage date +%Z
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$ AAA=`TZ=Asia/Garbage date +%Z`;echo "'$AAA'"
' '
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$ AAA=`TZ=Asia/Calcutta date +%Z` ; echo "'$AAA'"
' '
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$ AAA=`TZ=Asia/Calcutta date +%Z` ; echo "'$AAA'" > i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$ od i
0000000000000 023440 020040 023412
0000000000006
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$ AAA=`TZ=Asia/Garbage date +%Z`; echo "'$AAA'" > i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$ od i
0000000000000 023440 020040 023412
0000000000006
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$ AAA=`date +%Z`; echo "'$AAA'" > i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$ od i
0000000000000 023515 042524 023412
0000000000006
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$ cat i
'MET'
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$ uname -a
sn5176 sn5176 9.0.2.2 sin.0 CRAY Y-MP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdb]$
So, for unrecognized zones, three spaces are produced for the timezone
on the CRAY Y-MP system.
-- Mark
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