Dec. 20, 2023
7:30 a.m.
On 2023-12-19 15:25:55 (+0800), Paul Eggert via tz wrote:
* tzselect.ksh (tz): Rename this shell variable from TZ, so that invoked commands don’t change behavior merely because tzselect is speculating about what TZ setting the user wants. This is a safety measure for oddball platforms where this might make a difference, as POSIX allows utilities to crash if TZ is bogus.
Do such oddball platforms exist in the wild? To a casual reader, seeing $tz instead of $TZ may be confusing. Should we use $tz_for_date instead of $TZ_for_date for consistency? No objection to this. But it feels like refactoring for the sake of refactoring. Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Alternative Enterprises