From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 22:17:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] gitk: Allow displaying time zones from author and commit timestamps
Message-ID: <m21uzfal5i.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1105301717520.23145@dr-wily.mit.edu>

Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU> writes:

> In Tcl ≥ 8.5, none of this matters because ‘clock format -timezone’ just 
> uses the numerical UTC offset as the zone name.  For the fallback code, I 
> can’t do that by manipulating TZ, because the zone name needs to be made 
> of letters.

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

Andreas.

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