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Subject: RE: CRON and time
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:14:27 +0400
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>
> The above information is contained in tzset(3) and tzfile(5) man pages.
> Regretfully, the zic program was not ported to Cygwin and the above man
> pages are not in the distribution, and the localtime(3) man page that
> is included with Cygwin has MUCH less information then the Linux
> localtime(3) man page.
>
> I have the zic source and I'll try porting it.
>

While it is better than nothing - I believe, proper implementation in Cygwin
should take timezone information from Windows. Having two different places
to configure local timezone is confusing.

And is TZ format compatible between Unix and Windows?

-andrej


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