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diff --git a/doc/ref/posix.texi b/doc/ref/posix.texi index 34194fb19..a91bdb969 100644 --- a/doc/ref/posix.texi +++ b/doc/ref/posix.texi @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ @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 |