Re: printf builtin retains timezone from un-set TZ environment variable

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: printf builtin retains timezone from un-set TZ environment variable
Date	2019-07-14 15:07 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
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On 7/13/19 1:31 PM, Travis Everett wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.0
> Patch Level: 7
> Release Status: release
> 
> *Description:*
> I've noticed that a timezone explicitly set in the TZ environment variable
> can get cached (if any date-using command/builtin is run) and then show up
> (at least) in dates produced by the printf builtin's "%(...)T" formats even
> after the TZ variable is unset.

Thanks for the report. It's an easy fix.

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