Re: use of TZ by mktime()/strftime()

[arnold]

Ed Morton <mortoneccc@comcast.net> wrote:

> So in the above setting TZ to EST or UTC worked and specifying IST at 
> the end of the timestamp worked, but setting TZ to IST failed just like 
> it does in gawk. Clearly I'm missing something...

All of this depends on the underlying C library.  As far as I know
there aren't standardized time zone names that work the same
everywhere.  In any case, there's nothing gawk can do about it.

Arnold