test: Comment why we need to set TZ

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/notmuch-test b/test/notmuch-test
index 7082344..dc413f7 100755
--- a/test/notmuch-test
+++ b/test/notmuch-test
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -e
 
+# Messages contain time/date values with time zone and notmuch
+# displays them converted to the local time zone. We need to set fixed
+# timezone here so that the output of the tests is always the same
+# without regard to the time zone of where the test suite is run.
 export TZ=UTC+8
 
 find_notmuch_binary ()