shellutils-1.8: date -u doesn't work on old bsd systems

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1 total messages Started by Mike Rendell Fri, 11 Dec 1992 11:21

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Author: Mike Rendell
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 11:21

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Machine: vax
OS: 4.3bsd, ultrix 2.2

date -u (universal time) doesn't work on old BSD systems because localtime(3)
doesn't look at the TZ environment variable (TZ is set to UCT0 if the -u flag
is set).  This causes rcs [version 5.6] to fail its installation test.

Calling gmtime() instead of localtime() when the -u flag is set doesn't
completely fix the problem since the wrong time zone is printed.  I don't
see a clean way of fixing the problem, but perhaps it should be mentioned
in the README file.

--
Michael Rendell - Dept. of Comp. Sci., Memorial University of Newfoundland

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