Seems like libc must not check the TZ variable each time, possibly due to performance considerations?
On Monday, November 2, 2015, Avik Sengupta <avik.sengu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure why this behaves differently. The now() function calls down > to time_now() in libc, and while we do a setenv() when changing ENV, > clearly that change is not reaching down to the relevant parts of libc. > > In terms of workaround, if you wanted UTC time, then `now(Base.Dates.UTC)` > will give you that. For other timezone conversions, you may want to look at > the TimeZones package. (https://github.com/quinnj/TimeZones.jl) > > On Sunday, 1 November 2015 16:10:52 UTC, Josef Sachs wrote: >> >> Works as expected with `julia -e`, but the environment variable >> does not seem to be respected when set in the REPL. Can someone >> explain the reason, and possibly provide a workaround? >> >> $ TZ=UTC julia -e 'println(now())' >> 2015-11-01T16:02:37 >> $ julia -e 'println(now())' >> 2015-11-01T11:02:42 >> $ julia -e 'ENV["TZ"] = "UTC"; println(now())' >> 2015-11-01T16:03:07 >> $ julia >> _ >> _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing >> (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org >> _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?help" for help. >> | | | | | | |/ _` | | >> | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.4.1-pre+22 (2015-11-01 00:06 UTC) >> _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Commit 669222e (0 days old release-0.4) >> |__/ | x86_64-linux-gnu >> >> julia> ENV["TZ"] = "UTC"; println(now()) >> 2015-11-01T11:03:28 >> >
