date: display %Z alphabetic time zone abbreviation #7134
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Improve the display of dates formatted with the
%Z
specifier so thatthe timezone abbreviation is displayed, not just its numeric offset.
To accomplish this, two dependencies on third-party packages
chrono-tz
andiana-time-zone
are added to ourdate
package. Together, these two packagesallow us to produce time zone abbreviations (like
UTC
) from numerictimezone offsets.
Finally, in order for the tests to be independent of which time zone you are in, I added support for the
TZ=UTC0
environment variable, which forces the timezone to be UTC.Fixes #3756
Most of the work was done by #5164, I'm just updating it and making the tests pass.