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From: Clinton Bunch <cdbunch@zentaur.org>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Timezones and print -P %D
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 13:38:59 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0e1487c3-589f-3b91-87e8-48fb964e633a@zentaur.org> (raw)

Can someone explain what's going on here?  I was under the impression 
that variable assignments on the command-line were exported to the 
environment and only effective for the life of the command.

cdblinux[~]% unset TZ
cdblinux[~]% print -P '%D{%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M%z}'
2020-11-12T13:32-0600
cdblinux[~]% TZ=UTC print -P '%D{%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M%z}'
2020-11-12T13:33-0600
cdblinux[~]% export TZ
cdblinux[~]% TZ=UTC print -P '%D{%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M%z}'
2020-11-12T19:33+0000
cdblinux[~]% print -P '%D{%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M%z}'
2020-11-12T19:33+0000
cdblinux[~]% unset TZ
cdblinux[~]% print -P '%D{%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M%z}'
2020-11-12T13:33-0600
cdblinux[~]% cat /etc/system-release
CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core)
cdblinux[~]% uname -a
Linux cdblinux.cfhp.com 4.18.0-193.14.2.el8_2.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 26 
03:54:29 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
cdblinux[~]% echo $ZSH_VERSION
5.5.1



             reply	other threads:[~2020-11-12 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-12 19:38 Clinton Bunch [this message]
2020-11-13  4:06 ` Phil Pennock

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