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@c -*-texinfo-*-
@c This is part of the GNU Guile Reference Manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007
+@c Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008
@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See the file guile.texi for copying conditions.
@@ -1264,27 +1264,8 @@ formatting.
If @code{setlocale} has been called (@pxref{Locales}), month and day
names are from the current locale and in the locale character set.
-Note that @samp{%Z} might print the @code{tm:zone} in @var{tm} or it
-might print just the current zone (@code{tzset} above). A GNU system
-prints @code{tm:zone}, a strict C99 system like NetBSD prints the
-current zone. Perhaps in the future Guile will try to get
-@code{tm:zone} used always.
-@c
-@c The issue in the above is not just whether tm_zone exists in
-@c struct tm, but whether libc feels it should read it. Being a
-@c non-C99 field, a strict C99 program won't know to set it, quite
-@c likely leaving garbage there. NetBSD, which has the field,
-@c therefore takes the view that it mustn't read it. See the PR
-@c about this at
-@c
-@c http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=21722
-@c
-@c Uniformly making tm:zone used on all systems (all those which have
-@c %Z at all of course) might be nice (either mung TZ and tzset, or
-@c mung tzname[]). On the other hand it would make us do more than
-@c C99 says, and we really don't want to get intimate with the gory
-@c details of libc time funcs, no more than can be helped.
-@c
+Note that @samp{%Z} always ignores the @code{tm:zone} in @var{tm};
+instead it prints just the current zone (@code{tzset} above).
@end deffn
@deffn {Scheme Procedure} strptime format string