Re: [PATCH] tests: printf: provide explicit TZ start/end

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/11/24 5:52 AM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> POSIX says about the TZ variable:
>
>      If the dst field is specified and the rule field is not, it is
>      implementation-defined when the changes to and from DST occur.
>
> musl seems to interpret `TZ=EST5EDT` as having DST always in effect,
> causing the tests that rely on the glibc behavior (of defaulting to
> America/New_York transition rules) to fail.

It's not just glibc; musl is the oddball here. But since this change
will (or should) work with all systems that use tzdata, it should not
have any impact on other systems.

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