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From: lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: What is all this "timezone" stuff for?
Date: 24 May 1996 00:00:45 GMT
Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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Paul Eggert (eggert AT twinsun DOT com) wrote:
: HAUDE AT alpha5 DOT physnet DOT uni-hamburg DOT de (Daniel Haude) writes:

: >What is all the data in the "timezone" directory tree good for? Is it needed
: >for UNIX compatibility, and why?

: Yes.  In Unix, or in any Posix-compliant system (e.g. Windows NT :-),
: times are stored in UTC and are converted to and from localtime as needed.
: This is particularly important to get right when computers are
: connected in networks that span time zones.  The files in question
: contain information for various time zones around the world, used in
: these conversions.

Are these files used during compilation or during runtime? Maybe it would
be useful to put all these files into an ar archive, this should save a bit
of space.


bye, Alexander

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