I'm forwarding the attached bug report with permisison from Timothy Patrick Murphy; an updated version of the time zone code-- ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode96j.tar.gz --is now available which sets sp->typecnt as suggested. --ado

... Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 10:24:18 -0400 ... To: ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: bug report - timezone incorrectly set ...

I believe I have discovered a bug in the tzparse() function and would like you to review this. When the value of the TZ environment variable is of the form JKL3:10PNM4:40 the section of code between lines 947 and 1031 in localtime.c are executed. It seems that at the end of this block the value of sp->typecnt should be set to 2. If this is not done and there are at least 2 entries in the ttis array such that tt_isdst is false then the value of the global timezone variable is corrupted on line 234 in the settzname() function.

tpm

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