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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Timezone: resolve $TZDIR in runtime
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Msg-id 1633229.1729533576@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Timezone: resolve $TZDIR in runtime  (Anatolii Smolianinov <zarkonesmall@gmail.com>)
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Anatolii Smolianinov <zarkonesmall@gmail.com> writes:
> Right, it is not an official standard, but TZDIR appears in tzselect, which
> comes from GNU libc.  https://www.unix.com/man-page/redhat/8/TZSELECT/

No, it comes from the tzdb distribution, which otherwise hard-wires
a compile-time choice for that directory.  Which is how come no other
program responds to that environment variable.  So if anything, that's
precedent for our behavior.

            regards, tom lane

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