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Re: [PATCH] Remove locale timezone information
- From: keld at keldix dot com
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Cc: Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 15:08:36 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove locale timezone information
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On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 02:33:02PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> keld@keldix.com writes:
>
> > Well, it takes time to build the info. Furthermore, if data is not available
> > they can always fall back to the TZ info. This is all spelled out in the standard.
>
> The TZ info isn't a fallback, the POSIX timezone is.
I was talking about ISO TR 30112 LC_TIME timezone spec. The TZ environment variable
overrides the LC_TIME timezone spec.
Best regards
keld