[bug #33455] Time zone issue on Linux systems running in the UK

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

Update of bug #33455 (project gnustep):

              Item Group:                     Bug => Change Request         

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Follow-up Comment #2:

It's not so much a bug as an incorrectly installed system ... base tries to
guess the timezone if it's not properly installed, and it's not guessing it
correctly in this particular case.  However, it *would* be good to make the
guess more reliable if possible.

> Apparently, there is an inherent ambiguity in the time zone abbreviation
"GMT",
> which can denote standard time (nowadays known as UCT) and the standard
> UK time zone.

This is not the case (GMT unambiguously denotes standard time), though many of
the timezone abbreviations are ambiguous.

The UK time zone is WET (western european time).
In the winter WET is the same as GMT (greenwich mean time)
In the summer, WET is the same as BST (british summer time)

IIRC gnustep-base defaults to GMT/UCT/UTC/Zulu (all mean the same) if it fails
to guess the timezone from the information the operating system makes
available.



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