On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 12:41:49PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > [email protected] (HE12025-12-21): > > SSH is actually a notable example -- if I ssh into a computer > > in Sydney from, say, where I am, it will usually show times > > to me in my time zone and with my datetime display conventions, > > unless I choose differently. > > Two corrections: > > (1) SSH will do nothing of the sort. SSH will just carry to you the > output of the commands running on the remote computer.
Right. But it sets environment if its config allows. Here's, for example from /etc/ssh/sshd_config, which, AFAIK is Debian default: # Allow client to pass locale environment variables AcceptEnv LANG LC_* > (2) The timezone is not part of the locales, although it should. Makes sense to me, yes. > > What I don't agree with is, as often, in the sarcasm part. > > > > Learning, and helping to learn, is more often hindered > > than helped by sarcasm. Poisonous pedagogy and that. > > Teaching to unwilling students is a job that deserves compensation. Of course, this migtht vary, that's why I wrote "I disagree": but sarcasm seems to me worse compensation than thanks :-) Cheers -- t
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