Re: autobuild.m4 time zone fix

[Simon Josefsson]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> -  date=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`
>> +  date=`TZ=UTC date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`
>
> Although this change will work on many hosts, it is not portable in
> general.  It should say TZ=UTC0 to conform to POSIX.

Thanks, I've pushed the patch below.

/Simon

>From 1a033b0f27e71e0bd6b825215eae0a3eb15529be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Josefsson <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:24:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] m4/autobuild.m4: Use TZ=UTC0 instead of TZ=UTC.
 Reported by Paul Eggert <address@hidden>.

---
 ChangeLog       |    5 +++++
 m4/autobuild.m4 |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 17cac59..e970bb8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-08-21  Simon Josefsson  <address@hidden>
+
+       * m4/autobuild.m4: Use TZ=UTC0 instead of TZ=UTC.  Reported by
+       Paul Eggert <address@hidden>.
+
 2008-08-20  Paolo Bonzini  <address@hidden>
 
        * modules/gettext: Add m4/threadlib.m4.
diff --git a/m4/autobuild.m4 b/m4/autobuild.m4
index ccd9b5c..a025e73 100644
--- a/m4/autobuild.m4
+++ b/m4/autobuild.m4
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([AB_INIT],
 
   ifelse([$1],[],,[AC_MSG_NOTICE([autobuild mode... $1])])
 
-  date=`TZ=UTC date +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ`
+  date=`TZ=UTC0 date +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ`
   if test "$?" != 0; then
     date=`date`
   fi
-- 
1.5.6.3