[phobos] std.datetime fails on OSX

[Jacob Carlborg]

Don't know if it helps but I found this:

/etc/localtime                  			local time zone file
/usr/share/zoneinfo             			time zone directory
/usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules  	rules for POSIX-style TZ's
/usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT         		for UTC leap seconds

If the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT does not exist, UTC leap seconds are loaded from
/usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/darwin/reference/manpages/man3/tzsetwall.3.html


/Jacob Carlborg

On 16 jan 2011, at 03:00, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> On Saturday 15 January 2011 17:52:10 Walter Bright wrote:
>> The OSX file is
>> 
>> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles
>> 
>> not
>> 
>> /usr/share/zoneinfo//right/America/Los_Angeles
> 
> They both exist on Linux. The one in right/ has leap seconds whereas the other 
> one doesn't. The test is using /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/America/Los_Angeles to 
> test the leap second functionality.
> 
> So, you're saying that the folks at Apple _did_ put the time zone files in 
> /usr/share/zoneinfo, but that they _didn't_ use all of the standard time zone 
> files and left out the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo/right? If that's the case, 
> then I'll just make that test Linux-only.
> 
> It's already a bit weird with Linux, since glibc ignores the leap seconds if you 
> use the the right/ files. I made it so that if you selected a time zone file with 
> leap seconds in it, then the leap seconds were used. But regardless, the OS 
> won't use them. So, if they're not present on OSX, it's probably because they'd 
> never get used anyway.
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis
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/Jacob Carlborg