31 Jan
2005
31 Jan
'05
4:02 p.m.
On 2005-01-31, Simon Marlow
when TZ is set to "right/..." glibc assumes the system clock is set to TAI seconds since the epoch.
Of course, there's still no way for a user program to tell whether the system clock is supposed to be TAI or UTC.
Right. If we only cared about glibc systems (and a few others, I believe a couple of the *BSDs may also have this available), TZ would be a reasonable heuristic (it fails even there because of /etc/timezone) -- Aaron Denney -><-