strptime on Unix systems

[Justin Sheehy]

Niels Diepeveen <niels at endea.demon.nl> writes:

> So, on the whole it's not very clear what %Z should do. BTW, what does
> it do on BSD?

On FreeBSD:

     The %Z format specifier only accepts time zone abbreviations of the local
     time zone, or the value "GMT".  This limitation is because of ambiguity
     due to of the over loading of time zone abbreviations.  One such example
     is EST which is both Eastern Standard Time and Eastern Australia Summer
     Time.

-Justin