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		vbezhenar on Jan 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousan... It's not clear if TZ=Asia/Almaty or TZ=UTC helps to avoid those thousands. Also what about alpine musl?

kseistrup on Jan 12, 2023 | [–]

However, tzset(3) (or “man timezone”) says that if the filespec does not start with a slash, the file specification is relative to the system timezone directory, so e.g. “TZ=:Asia/Almaty” should give the desired effect.

akira2501 on Jan 12, 2023 | [–]

You can also set TZ="" and UTC will be assumed.

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