Re: bug#20314: [PATCH] Make output of mdate-sh deterministic

2017-09-22 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hello Paul, Paul Eggert writes: > Unfortunately that patch to Automake's mdate-sh is not portable, as > TZ='UTC' is not a portable setting for the TZ environment > variable. POSIX says you're supposed to use something like TZ='UTC0' > instead. Although TZ='UTC' works when glibc is used, this is

Re: bug#20314: [PATCH] Make output of mdate-sh deterministic

2017-09-21 Thread Paul Eggert
Unfortunately that patch to Automake's mdate-sh is not portable, as TZ='UTC' is not a portable setting for the TZ environment variable. POSIX says you're supposed to use something like TZ='UTC0' instead. Although TZ='UTC' works when glibc is used, this is not necessarily true on other POSIX plat