Subject: [bug#48364] [PATCH 5/5] gnu: Add tz.

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 15:13:07 -0400

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 08:55:54PM +0200, Stefan Reichör wrote:
> * gnu/packages/time.scm (tz): New variable.

> +    (synopsis "Display time across a few selected time zones.")
> +    (description
> +     "tz is a cli tool that displays a given time in several time zones.  Use
> +the environment variable TZ_LIST to specify a list of time zones.")

I'm curious, how does it find the time zone database?

It should look them up at runtime via something like a TZDIR environment
variable. It should not include a copy of the database, or else it will
become "stale" before too long.