Re: [PATCH 5/6] test-strftime: test for Solaris bug

[Paul Eggert]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Oh Solaris has the same issue?

Sorry, I thought your earlier messages said so; if not then please ignore my 
noise about Solaris.

> So you mean warn, rather than fail or ignore in this case?

This depends on whether the failure is due to gnulib (in which case we should 
fail, and should fix the gnulib bug) or in the C library (in which case we 
should just warn).  If on Darwin the shell command

TZ='NZST-12NZDT,M9.5.0,M4.1.0/3' date -r0

outputs the string "Thu Jan  1 12:00:00 NZST 1970", then the C library is 
clearly buggy. If not, we should investigate further. The above example assumes 
Darwin 'date', not GNU date, so it uses the -r0 option; GNU date would have address@hidden 
instead.