Ken Brown wrote: > ... Here's what I see on my Cygwin system: > > $ echo $TZ > America/New_York > > $ date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)' > 2017-05-03 07:29:03 -0400 (EDT) > > $ TZ= date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)' > 2017-05-03 11:29:14 +0000 (GMT) > > $ unset TZ > > $ date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)' > 2017-05-03 07:29:30 -0400 (EDT)
Thanks for correcting me. I had (incorrectly) assumed that an unset value and an empty value are equivalent, like for LANG. I've now brought up the issue on the Cygwin mailing list: <https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-05/msg00122.html> Let's see... Bruno
