* NEWS: Mention this. * localtime.c (scrub_abbrs): Treat ' ' as bogus. --- NEWS | 5 +++++ localtime.c | 1 - 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0436c615..2c354038 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes -DHAVE_GETRESUID=[01], and -DHAVE_GETEUID=[01] to enable or disable these system calls' use. + tzset etc. now treat ' ' like '_' in time zone abbreviations, + just as they treat other invalid bytes. This continues the + transition begun in release 96k, which removed spaces in tzdata + because the spaces break time string parsers. + tzcode now uses mempcpy if available, guessing its availability. Compile with -DHAVE_MEMPCPY=1 or 0 to override the guess. diff --git a/localtime.c b/localtime.c index c5bc4e93..aa9ad7bd 100644 --- a/localtime.c +++ b/localtime.c @@ -504,7 +504,6 @@ scrub_abbrs(struct state *sp) for (i = 0; i < sp->charcnt; ++i) switch (sp->chars[i]) { case '\0': - case ' ': case '+': case '-': case '.': case '0': case '1': case '2': case '3': case '4': case '5': case '6': case '7': case '8': case '9': -- 2.48.1