[tz] Java & Rearguard

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis at SystematicSw.ab.ca
Fri May 31 19:18:36 UTC 2019


On 2019-05-31 10:53, Guy Harris wrote:
> On May 31, 2019, at 8:31 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
>> Unfortunately I don't run on Linux, so can't check this.
> Do you mean "don't run on Linux" or do you mean "don't run on any flavor of 
> UN*X"?  Paul said "if I run the following shell command on a POSIX-compatible
> host", which is inequivalent to "on Linux" (especially given that few if any
> Linux distributions have been run through the Single UNIX Specification test
> suite to validate them as POSIX-compliant). Is there something special here
> about Linux that means that some other UN*X won't suffice?

You don't need Linux, any POSIX compatible shell *sh on Windows or Mac will
handle the TZ env var, with the capability also of launching the platform java,
assuming one is available, like OpenJDK.

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