Re: setting the timezone with TZ env var

"John E. Davis" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sven Guckes <[email protected]> wrote:
> i understand that *not* using a filename which specifies a timezone will do.
> so - as my timezone is "CEST" the following *should* work, right?
>
>   $ TZ=CEST slrn

It should:

#v+
[3:43pm] strace slsh -e 'loop(5)()=strftime ("%X %x", localtime (_time()))' |& grep localtime
open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY)        = 3
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3519, ...}) = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3519, ...}) = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3519, ...}) = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3519, ...}) = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3519, ...}) = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3519, ...}) = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3519, ...}) = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3519, ...}) = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3519, ...}) = 0
[3:43pm] /home/john>setenv TZ "CEST"                                            [lapdog]
[7:44pm] /home/john>strace slsh -e 'loop(5)()=strftime ("%X %x", localtime (_time()))' |& grep localtime
[7:44pm] /home/john>unsetenv TZ
[3:44pm] /home/john>
#v-

Note that I use tcsh and have the time displayed in my tcsh prompt.
--John

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