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diff --git a/time/strftime.c b/time/strftime.c
index c53f208..891d301 100644
--- a/time/strftime.c
+++ b/time/strftime.c
@@ -424,15 +424,13 @@ strftime (s, maxsize, format, tp)
const char *f;
zone = NULL;
-#if !defined _LIBC && HAVE_TM_ZONE
- /* XXX We have some problems here. First, the string pointed to by
- tm_zone is dynamically allocated while loading the zone data. But
- when another zone is loaded since the information in TP were
- computed this would be a stale pointer.
- The second problem is the POSIX test suite which assumes setting
+#if HAVE_TM_ZONE
+ /* The POSIX test suite assumes that setting
the environment variable TZ to a new value before calling strftime()
will influence the result (the %Z format) even if the information in
- TP is computed with a totally different time zone. --drepper@gnu */
+ TP is computed with a totally different time zone.
+ This is bogus: though POSIX allows bad behavior like this,
+ POSIX does not require it. Do the right thing instead. */
zone = (const char *) tp->tm_zone;
#endif
#if HAVE_TZNAME