Anatolii Smolianinov <zarkonesmall@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Right, it is not an official standard, but TZDIR appears in tzselect, which > comes from GNU libc. https://www.unix.com/man-page/redhat/8/TZSELECT/ No, it comes from the tzdb distribution, which otherwise hard-wires a compile-time choice for that directory. Which is how come no other program responds to that environment variable. So if anything, that's precedent for our behavior. regards, tom lane