Re: Set TZ environment variable when not set

[David Laight]

> David> Absolutely, it isn't necessary on some unix variants (eg NetBSD)
> David> and it can't actually hold the reqiured information.  Setting it
> David> will override the default value for the user.
>
> David,
>
> did you look at the patch or the changelog? :-(
> My proposed patch only sets TZ to a default value when TZ is _not_ set
> From my system:

$ date
Thu Apr 17 09:33:50 BST 2003
$ echo $TZ

$ TZ=GMT0 date
Thu Apr 17 08:34:02 GMT 2003
$ TZ=xyz-167 date
Thu Apr 24 07:39:40 xyz 2003
$

If TZ is set, then its value is used.  If it isn't set then the timezone
information comes from elsewhere - probably the LOCALE.

David