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 14:49:17 +0200 (CEST)
From: Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago <marcos AT laud DOT it DOT uc3m DOT es>
To: Kurt Roeckx <Q AT ping DOT be>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: TZ environment variable
In-Reply-To: <20020425020039.A460@ping.be>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204251446540.28818-100000@laud.it.uc3m.es>
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/