win: fix test-process-env

Remove support for setting process.env.TZ as it doesn't seem we can do it
x-platform without fixing V8.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/simple/test-process-env.js b/test/simple/test-process-env.js
index 725962d34b..0001fb3e20 100644
--- a/test/simple/test-process-env.js
+++ b/test/simple/test-process-env.js
@@ -25,10 +25,21 @@ process.env.TZ = 'Europe/Amsterdam';
 assert = require('assert');
 spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
 
+/* For the moment we are not going to support setting the timezone via the
+ * environment variables. The problem is that various V8 platform backends
+ * deal with timezone in different ways. The windows platform backend caches
+ * the timezone value while the Linux one hits libc for every query.
+  
+https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/08782931205bc4f6d28102ebc29fd806e8ccdf1f/deps/v8/src/platform-linux.cc#L339-345
+https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/08782931205bc4f6d28102ebc29fd806e8ccdf1f/deps/v8/src/platform-win32.cc#L590-596
+
+
 // time difference between Greenwich and Amsterdam is +2 hours in the summer
 date = new Date('Fri, 10 Sep 1982 03:15:00 GMT');
 assert.equal(3, date.getUTCHours());
 assert.equal(5, date.getHours());
+*/
+
 
 // changes in environment should be visible to child processes
 if (process.argv[2] == 'you-are-the-child') {