NixOS/nixpkgs — pull request #5332 by Nukama (2014-12-14 15:04:30+00:00)
Title: Change default timezone to UTC.

Change default timezone to Coordinated Universal Time UTC [0] to reflect latest time standard [1] [2].
Not to confuse with its predecessor GMT [3].

Let the user define the timezone, and not default to a timezone limited to parts of Europe (CET) [4].

The timezone can also be specified per user rule:
export TZ="/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam"

Best Regards,
Hakisho Nukama

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Time
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_standard
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Time