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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] gitk: Allow displaying time zones from author and commit timestamps
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Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU> writes:

> In Tcl =E2=89=A5 8.5, none of this matters because =E2=80=98clock for=
mat -timezone=E2=80=99 just=20
> uses the numerical UTC offset as the zone name.  For the fallback cod=
e, I=20
> can=E2=80=99t do that by manipulating TZ, because the zone name needs=
 to be made=20
> of letters.

POSIX defines the form TZ=3D"<-0430>+04:30" where <...> can contain any
character from [a-zA-Z0-9+-].

Andreas.

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