Hi Thomas, > i wrote to info-mtools about the problem that time zone influences the > result of mcopy even if SOURCE_TIME_EPOCH is set. > Alain Knaff then proposed to set the TZ variable to UTF when pcmemtest > gets built. > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-mtools/2022-02/msg00002.html > > Would that be viable in pcmemtest ? > Are any problems to foresee if TZ is set inside build*/Makefile ?
I do not envisage any problem in doing this, although it is somewhat strange for mcopy to use SOURCE_TIME_EPOCH in a timezone-dependent manner. More generally, I can't think of a scenario where the value of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH request a timezone implication, so if mcopy supports this particular use-case (and, indeed, supports it as the default one), I might boldly suggest that this is a bug in mcopy. Just my £0.02. :) Thanks for doing a lot of the legwork here. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org 🍥 chris-lamb.co.uk `-