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authorDag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>2026-03-02 17:21:42 +0000
committerDag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>2026-03-02 17:21:42 +0000
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@@ -131,15 +131,16 @@ DESCRIPTION
appropriate for another time zone specified via a proleptic TZ string
that lacks rules. For example, when TZ="EET-2EEST" and there is no
TZif file "EET-2EEST", the idea was to adapt the transition times from
- a TZif file with the well-known name "posixrules" that is present only
- for this purpose and is a copy of the file "Europe/Brussels", a file
+ a TZif file with the well-known name "posixrules" that was present only
+ for this purpose and was a copy of the file "Europe/Brussels", a file
with a different UT offset. POSIX does not specify the details of this
obsolete transformational behavior, the default rules are installation-
dependent, and no implementation is known to support this feature for
timestamps past 2037, so users desiring (say) Greek time should instead
specify TZ="Europe/Athens" for better historical coverage, falling back
- on TZ="EET-2EEST,M3.5.0/3,M10.5.0/4" if POSIX conformance is required
- and older timestamps need not be handled accurately.
+ on TZ="EET-2EEST,M3.5.0/3,M10.5.0/4" if conformance to POSIX.1-2017 or
+ earlier is required and older timestamps need not be handled
+ accurately.
The localtime(3) function normally uses the first ttinfo structure in
the file if either tzh_timecnt is zero or the time argument is less