Bug#292269: more info from Gnome developers on this issue

[Marc Dequènes (Duck)]

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Coin,

Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> writes:

> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D167198
>
> Here is the update from the Gnome developers:
>
> ------- Additional Comments From Vincent Untz  2005-02-13 03:42 -------
> Thanks for looking at the problem in depth.
>
> I suppose Debian maintainers made the patch so the clock knows when the
> timezone changes. This is not the right fix. You should probably mention
> that newer glibc (2.3.3, I think) fix this behaviour for all programs...

Thanks for this information.

I asked a glibc maintainer.
He told me the application would still have to tzset() once in a while,
and that function is fixed in 2.3.3, you were right.

I would have liked to simply drop this patch, but 2.3.3 will not be in
Sarge, so the timezone bug is gonna remain.

So i'm leaving this drawback for now.
:-(

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Marc Dequ=C3=A8nes (Duck)

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