The following reply was made to PR bin/36831; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/36831: rtclocaltime shows negative 0
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:17:17 +0200

 On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, zafer@aydogan.de wrote:
 > when using rtclocaltime=no in rc.conf and when /etc/localtime links to
 > UTC (default), then rc.d prints during boot:
 > 
 > Setting RTC offset to -0.
 
 This is caused by an awk bug, which is reproducible like this:
 
     echo foo | awk '{print (-1 * 0)}'
     # prints "-0"; should print "0".
 
 > The patch fixes this. No functional changes, just cosmetics showing 0
 > without a negative sign.
 
 Your patch happens to work around the awk bug, but makes the shell script
 much harder to understand.
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)