localtime bug tracked down

Just wanted to share the good news; Akihiro SAGAWA tracked down the
bug with localtime reporting gmtime:

http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

This has been on my guilt list of things to try to look at for a long
time now.  I assume an actual patch will be in perl soon, and that
Gerrit will release an updated cygwin package (if asked politely).

One thing I'm curious about; I can see good reasons why localtime_r
wouldn't go a tzset automatically, but I'm puzzled as to why cygwin
seems to have been the only platform hit by this problem.  What's
different on others?  Aren't there other newlib-based platforms that
would see this?  (See the link above for a short C test program.)


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