Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 02:00:39 +0200
From: Kurt Roeckx <Q AT ping DOT be>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: TZ environment variable
Message-ID: <20020425020039.A460@ping.be>
References: <Pine DOT LNX DOT 4 DOT 44 DOT 0204241713410 DOT 9457-100000 AT laud DOT it DOT uc3m DOT es>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204241713410.9457-100000@laud.it.uc3m.es>; from marcos@laud.it.uc3m.es on Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:15:56PM +0200

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)


Kurt


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/