[rocky1138]

It is perhaps out of scope of the article, but it sure would have been helpful to show how to set the TZ environment variable and what to set it to.

[mmozeiko]

Its right there in middle of article (under "Preventing extraneous system calls" section):

    $ TZ=:/etc/localtime strace -ttT ./test

[rocky1138]

I can't believe I missed that! Thanks.