Set environment variable globally

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2017-03-24 22:19, Andrew Martin wrote:
> I recently saw this blog post regarding performance when the TZ
> environment variable is not set:
> https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2017/02/21/set-environment-variable-save-thousands-of-system-calls/
>
> I have noticed this problem when stracing running daemons on my
> systems and would like to fix it. I reviewed the official Ubuntu
> documentation for where to define environment variables:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables
>
> I tried defining TZ in /etc/environment and in
> /etc/profile.d/test.sh, but I cannot get this environment variable to
> be available in all cases (e.g. if I just execute bash without
> --login or if I run the sample c program provided in the above
> article). How can I make the TZ environment variable defined
> completely system-wide?

Also asked at <http://askubuntu.com/q/897813>.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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