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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:53:11 +0300
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From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud AT unix DOT simonwiesel DOT co DOT il>
To: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej DOT Borsenkow AT mow DOT siemens DOT ru>
Subject: Re: CRON and time
CC: nikolaos DOT trikkaliotis AT serfrance DOT fr, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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	Andrej Borsenkow on Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:14:27 +0400)
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On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:14:27 +0400, Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej DOT Borsenkow AT mow DOT siemens DOT ru> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Well, It depends. The Israeli time zone is not functioning properly in
M$ Windoze (they don't adjust to the yearly change in DST). I prefer my
Cygwin time to be correct even if the Windoze time is wrong.

> And is TZ format compatible between Unix and Windows?

The TZ env var (in it simplest form, as described by me) is fully
compatible with all UNIX system. The `zic' compiled file (localtime)
is compatible with Linux and some other UNICes (the file place and name
is VERY varied) but some systems (e.g. SGI IRIX) don't support it at
all (SGI has complex TZ format for this).

Note. The TZ is even used by some Windoze programs (I had a Netware NFS
      client that used it).

Ehud.


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