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To: Joseph Tate <jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com>
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Subject: Re: timezone irregularity when Windows TZ is set to Indiana
References: <4068ACED DOT 2090706 AT dragonstrider DOT com>
From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr DOT Volker DOT Zell AT oracle DOT com>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:15:02 +0200
In-Reply-To: <4068ACED.2090706@dragonstrider.com> (Joseph Tate's message of "Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:10:37 -0500")
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>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Tate  writes:

    Joseph> If I have a Windows PC with the timezone set to
    Joseph> "(GMT-05:00)Indiana(East)", date +%Z returns the timezone as
    Joseph> "USEST". Is this designed or broken behavior?

    Joseph> If I set TZ to USEST date returns a GMT time.  I've noticed that there
    Joseph> is no zoneinfo package, but if I copy /usr/share/zoneinfo from a RHL
    Joseph> system, and set the TZ env variable to 'America/Indianapolis' I get
    Joseph> back EST as the timezone.

There is one, it's called tzcode.

Ciao
  Volker
 


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