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Date:	Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:49:17 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago <marcos AT laud DOT it DOT uc3m DOT es>
To:	Kurt Roeckx <Q AT ping DOT be>
Cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: TZ environment variable
In-Reply-To:	<20020425020039.A460@ping.be>
Message-ID:	<Pine.LNX.4.44.0204251446540.28818-100000@laud.it.uc3m.es>
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On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Kurt Roeckx wrote:

     > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:15:56PM +0200, Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago wrote:
     > > Easy question:
     > > 	Which values are valid for the TZ environment variable?
     > >
     > > I looked all the manpages (linux & windows manpages) but found nothing
     > > refering to this variable. I know that perl and cygwin look at this
     > > variable to display localtime and I need to know if my configuration is
     > > set correctly.
     >
     > Try man tzset.
     >
     > Basicly, you can set it to anything you find in the "zoneinfo"
     > (/usr/share/zoneinfo)
     >
     >

Well I already tried looking that manpage. I was looking for documentation
on setting TZ variable as characters, ie: TZ=CEST-1CET, not the files
which I can set.

thx,
m4c.


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