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From:	"T.W. Seddon" <T DOT W DOT Seddon AT ncl DOT ac DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: What is all this "timezone" stuff for?
Date:	23 May 1996 12:05:38 GMT
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Daniel Haude (HAUDE AT alpha5 DOT physnet DOT uni-hamburg DOT de) wrote:
> What is all the data in the "timezone" directory tree good for? Is it needed
> for UNIX compatibility, and why? Just curious. I don't know a thing about UNIX.

Sorry for cluttering up the newsgroup, but would whoever replies to this 
please reply to the newsgroup, or cc the answer to me as well,please? I'd 
like to know what all those timezone bits are for as well, especially 
seeing as those 300-byte files take up 8K each on my hard drive.

--Tom

T DOT W DOT Seddon AT ncl DOT ac DOT uk			http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~n5013784/

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