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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 beta & tests
From: smalyshev@sugarcrm.com (Stas Malyshev)

Hi!

On 8/30/11 9:53 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote:
> strftime() on Mac seems to ignore timezone arguments in struct tm for
> some reason and uses environment TZ instead. Not sure how to address that.

Looking into Mac strftime sources, it says this:

			** C99 says that the UTC offset must
			** be computed by looking only at
			** tm_isdst. This requirement is
			** incorrect, since it means the code
			** must rely on magic (in this case
			** altzone and timezone), and the
			** magic might not have the correct
			** offset. Doing things correctly is
			** tricky and requires disobeying C99;
			** see GNU C strftime for details.
			** For now, punt and conform to the
			** standard, even though it's incorrect.

Which means, since we can't touch the environment in php_date.c code, we 
have to set TZ env variable for the test to pass, and strftime for Mac 
is dependent on TZ env and we can't do a thing about it as it seems.
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