On Tuesday 09 April 2019 14:28:18 Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 02:03:08PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Tuesday 09 April 2019 09:38:43 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >> On 2019-04-08 18:26:23 +0300, Reco wrote: > >> > stretch$ TZ=UTC date > >> > Mon Apr 8 15:22:02 UTC 2019 > >> > buster$ TZ=UTC date > >> > Mon 08 Apr 2019 03:22:04 PM UTC > >> > >> This is unrelated to your issue, but note that the correct TZ > >> string for UTC is "UTC0", not "UTC". See > >> > >> > >> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08. > >>htm l > > > >Yikes. Can that be actually put into English? > > > >I've read thru it, and the only thing I can come away is that 'if > > UTC, then offset is required, and it can be anything from -23 to > > +23, including your example 0 meaning no offset from UTC. > > > >As it now reads, theres a ton of ambiguity that needs further > >clarification. > > There's a discrepency between the historic posix definition of the TZ > environment variable, and how it works on a modern system. There's an > official workaround that I've never actually seen used in the wild. It > doesn't matter in practice. > > Mike Stone
The point I was trying to make Mike, is, if thats to be a std, its an extremely obtuse way of writing that std. Consequently I suspect it will be 100% ignored. And folks will continue to muddle along just fine. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
