lib: support setting process.env.TZ on windows by jasnell · Pull Request #38642 · nodejs/node · GitHub

Fixes: #4230
Signed-off-by: James M Snell jasnell@gmail.com

Update: Even tho this is semver-patch, I'm marking it as a notable change for when it lands. The bug was first reported back in Dec 2015, it was closed for a while, one partial attempt at fixing it was made a couple of years ago, and this completes the fix.

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Might just have NODE_DEFAULT_ZONE instead of trying to emulate TZ. don't use abbrevs just tz IDs like America/Los_Angeles.

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Might just have NODE_DEFAULT_ZONE instead of trying to emulate TZ.

In the current version of the PR, use of set TZ="..." does work. Is there a particular limitation here that would make it undesirable? What would using NODE_DEFAULT_ZONE give us? My concern would be introducing something that is inconsistent with TZ on non-windows systems.

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Might just have NODE_DEFAULT_ZONE instead of trying to emulate TZ.

In the current version of the PR, use of set TZ="..." does work. Is there a particular limitation here that would make it undesirable? What would using NODE_DEFAULT_ZONE give us? My concern would be introducing something that is inconsistent with TZ on non-windows systems.

What matt was alluding to is that it's already inconsistent. Posix does a bunch of other processing. Node-default-zone would make it clear we are simply choosing a new default zone by the full id rather than trying To emulate Posix TZ on windows.

I'll say lgtm with caveats that it will not be === TZ behavior on posix, suggestions as noted in thread.

I'll say lgtm with caveats that it will not be === TZ behavior on posix, suggestions as noted in thread.

Understood. I think those differences will be ok here. I'll try to find a good place to describe those differences in the docs

I'll say lgtm with caveats that it will not be === TZ behavior on posix, suggestions as noted in thread.

Understood. I think those differences will be ok here. I'll try to find a good place to describe those differences in the docs

one reference: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/TZ-Variable.html
ICU won't necessarily handle those completely either, but it will try to find a matching zone.
Perhaps something like this:

While the TZ env variable on Node.js won't handle all of the various ways that the TZ variable is handled in other environments, it will support tz ids (such as Etc/UTC, Europe/Paris or America/New_York. It may support a few other abbreviations or aliases, but these are strongly discouraged.

sorry not sorry for being a stick in the timezone mud :)

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lgtm

Fixes: nodejs#4230 Signed-off-by: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>

CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/38099/ 💚

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Fixes: #4230 Signed-off-by: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> PR-URL: #38642 Reviewed-By: Steven R Loomis <srloomis@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>

Notable changes: async_hooks: * (SEMVER-MINOR) use new v8::Context PromiseHook API (Stephen Belanger) #36394 lib: * support setting process.env.TZ on windows (James M Snell) #38642 module: * (SEMVER-MINOR) add support for `URL` to `import.meta.resolve` (Antoine du Hamel) #38587 process: * (SEMVER-MINOR) add `'worker'` event (James M Snell) #38659 util: * (SEMVER-MINOR) add util.types.isKeyObject and util.types.isCryptoKey (Filip Skokan) #38619 PR-URL: #38719

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I can't set a default timezone on windows. #4230

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