[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55437] Files in editor are reported as modified while heavily parsing date strings with datenum()

[Andrew Janke]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #55437 (project octave):

Makes sense that the temporary TZ change would cause this. I can't reproduce
on macOS, but I think that's because macOS does its file change notifications
differently, subscribing to a system service that pushes filesystem change
notification events.

Maybe there's a way to do the "zone-independent" date parsing locally instead
of fiddling with the global TZ environment variable: Check the date format
string, and if it doesn't include an explicit `%z` or `%Z`, then concatenate '
%Z' to the format string and ' GMT' to the input date strings, so the
strptime() parsing logic doesn't have to refer to TZ at all.

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