From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:38:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add the NEXTSTEP strftime %j bug to Known Problems.
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Add the NEXTSTEP strftime %j bug to Known Problems.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5783
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 4ab402f..39bb033 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -2641,6 +2641,13 @@ known as Open Edition MVS) and VM-ESA were supported.  Due to the
 changes required by the UTF-8 (Unicode) support in Perl 5.6 the EBCDIC
 platforms are not supported in Perl 5.6.0.
 
+=head2 NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure
+
+In NEXTSTEP 3.3p2 the implementation of the strftime(3) in the
+operating system libraries is buggy: the %j format numbers the days of
+a month starting from zero, which, while being logical to programmers,
+will cause the subtests 19 to 27 of the lib/posix test may fail.
+
 =head2 UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
 
 In UNICOS/mk the following errors may appear during the Configure run: