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Re: How to make groff use local timezone?
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Colin Watson |
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Re: How to make groff use local timezone? |
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Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:43:36 +0000 |
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On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 02:12:28PM +1100, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2020-12-12T21:19:38-0800, Jim Avera wrote:
> > I suspect groff is always in UTC (but haven't confirmed).
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> No, that is not true, at least not in groff as provided by GNU. A
> downstream distributor, like a GNU/Linux distribution, could alter this.
Debian currently does
(https://salsa.debian.org/debian/groff/blob/master/debian/patches/display-utc-times.patch).
But I'm unsure about the correctness of this, which is why I hadn't
pushed it upstream; it was something of a desperation measure to get
reproducible builds working in more places, but changing the semantics
of things like \n[hours] is not ideal.
Perhaps playing whack-a-mole with TZ=UTC in more places would be better
in this case, although it seems unlikely to be much fun - I'm not sure.
--
Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson@debian.org]
- How to make groff use local timezone?, Jim Avera, 2020/12/13
- Re: How to make groff use local timezone?, G. Branden Robinson, 2020/12/15
- [PATCH] environment variable to make groff use UTC, G. Branden Robinson, 2020/12/15
- Re: How to make groff use local timezone?, Colin Watson, 2020/12/16
- [PROPOSAL] time zones and reproducible builds (was: How to make groff use local timezone?), G. Branden Robinson, 2020/12/20
- Re: [PROPOSAL] time zones and reproducible builds (was: How to make groff use local timezone?), Dave Kemper, 2020/12/21
- Re: [PROPOSAL] time zones and reproducible builds (was: How to make groff use local timezone?), Deri, 2020/12/21