Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , 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 14:49:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago To: Kurt Roeckx Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: TZ environment variable In-Reply-To: <20020425020039.A460@ping.be> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > 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) > > Well I already tried looking that manpage. I was looking for documentation on setting TZ variable as characters, ie: TZ=CEST-1CET, not the files which I can set. thx, m4c. -- 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/