Re: History timestamping does not respect TZ env variable

[Julian Mehnle]

Chet Ramey wrote:
> Julian Mehnle wrote:
> > Description:
> > The history timestamping feature of Bash 3.0 does not respect the TZ
> > (timezone) environment variable.  It erroneously always uses the
> > system clock's configured timezone.
>
> Since it calls strftime(3) to do the formatting, it uses whatever
> strftime uses.  There is the usual problem of exported shell
> variables finding their way into the environment searched by the
> C library functions.  This is why bash attempts to provide a
> replacement for getenv().

I'm not sure I understand entirely what this means.  Do you mean that the 
undesired behavior described by me above is being acknowledged as a 
deficiency of Bash?  Can it be fixed without great efforts?

Julian.

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