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Subject: Re: Timezone: resolve $TZDIR in runtime
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On 2024-10-21 Anatolii Smolianinov <zarkonesmall@gmail.com> wrote:
> date(1) does not set timezone dir: but it uses TZ, and, in man, it
> refers to tzselect:
> > use tzselect to find TZ"

That's an imperative "use", not an indicative. In other words: the
user, to find an appropriate value for `TZ`, should run the command
`tzselect`.

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