Hi Bengt,
I'm sorry that I didn't have time to fully read your messages, but if I
understand correctly from my quick skimming, the 'date' command from
Guix is failing to access the zoneinfo. I think I see your problem.
Bengt Richter <b...@bokr.com> writes:
> $ strace -y date|& egrep 'America|^write'|sed -e 's:,:,\n :g'
> openat(AT_FDCWD,
>
> "/gnu/store/h90vnqw0nwd0hhm1l5dgxsdrigddfmq4-glibc-2.28/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles",
> O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
The file name above suggests that your TZDIR variable is not set
correctly to allow Guix-built binaries to find the zoneinfo files.
On Guix systems, /etc/environment includes an entry that sets TZDIR to
the equivalent of "$(guix build tzdata)/share/zoneinfo".
When using Guix on top of another distro, an alternative choice might be
to set TZDIR to "/usr/share/zoneinfo". I'm not sure which setting is
preferable on non-Guix systems.
Can you try setting TZDIR and see if that solves the problem for you?
Regards,
Mark
