>> The POSIX standard *requires* that the ?STx?DT format precludes
>the use of zone files.
>
>> Any OS which uses the zoneinfo files is not compliant when the $TZ
>variable can be parsed under the POSIX rules.
>
>Okay, well the NIH zdump (and, as it happens, the Sol 10 zdump.c I got to
>compile on Sol 2.7), "trussed" shows:
>open("/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/GMT", O_RDONLY) = 3
>open("/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/CST6CDT", O_RDONLY) = 3
>
>So I guess the reason it 'works' is its not properly POSIX ... so the
>question (to my mind) remains - where does Sol's POSIX-valid zdump get its
>TZ info? From a library file? That would be the one we need to update.
If Solaris zdump does not dump the zone file, then that's somewhat
strange; these POSIX rules are hardcoded in the library
file.
What you really should do is switch to the appriate Olson timezone.
(US/...)
Casper
