Re: Small patch for srfi-19.test on HP-UX

[Andreas Vögele]

Paul Jarc writes:

> Andreas Vögele <address@hidden> wrote:
> > There's no common synonym for CET but the time zone EST5EDT seems to 
> > work on
> > GNU/Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and Mac OS X.
>
> It also works for me on {Free,Net,Open}BSD and BSD/OS.  (Then again,
> the NetBSD and BSD/OS machines use that time zone by default anyway,
> so it's possible (though unlikely) that they failed to understand that
> time zone name and fell back to the default.)

On NetBSD, zoneinfo/northamerica contains the following entry:

# Old names, for S5 users

# Link  LINK-FROM               LINK-TO
Link    America/New_York        EST5EDT

If an unknown time zone name is specified, GNU/Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, 
Mac OS X and IRIX default to UTC.

I can confirm that EST5EDT works on IRIX and AIX. The Ultrix manual 
page for ctime and the OSF1 manual page for tzset both mention EST5EDT. 
Like GNU/Linux, the Hurd uses glibc which supports EST5EDT. Are there 
any other UNIX implementations that have to be checked?