On: Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy

[woodruffw]

This is perhaps just my ignorance, but when do you find yourself needing to set the timezone like that? Not in 10+ years of C programming have I ever had to do that.

[masklinn → woodruffw]

I assume doing something on behalf of a remote user and still convinced locales can do a thing other than hurt you.

[j16sdiz → woodruffw]

In most of the time, you just set it on program start and never change. This is quite common for programs that expects UTC.

Searching in github, other example are:

  1) `jq` parsing datetime
  2)  systemd , timectl printing status
  3) Unit tests 
  4) Some RDP client update its own timezone with server timezone

[fanf2 → woodruffw]

I might do that if I am writing a quick-and-dirty program that works with times in multiple time zones and I can’t be bothered to find a library with a better API.