How does defining a time zone in a TZ variable works?
Issue
The following code which sets TZ variable to two different timezones and prints timezone names and offset:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
int main( void )
{
setenv("TZ", "MST-10MDT", 1);
tzset();
printf("%s %s offset: %d\n", tzname[0], tzname[1], timezone);
setenv("TZ", "US/Eastern", 1);
tzset();
printf("%s %s offset: %d\n", tzname[0], tzname[1], timezone);
}
outputs strange result as if the same timezone was used:
# ./tzset
MST MDT offset: -36000
MST MDT offset: -36000
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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