RE: strftime in EBCDIC maxhine (ITS#2802)

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> In libraries/liblutil/utils.c The code for EBCDIC assumes
> that strftime is
> broken in all EBCDIC platforms. That is not very lucky.
> In servers/slapd/slapi/printmsg.c the code assumes that
> EBCDIC works OK and
> probably that brings problems in the broken platform.

Yes, I see. The z/OS 1.2 compiler has better support for ASCII as well,
including a correct strftime. I'll have to think about how to configure this
without breaking OS/390 2.9, or maybe we don't care about supporting that old
release any more.

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