Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 14:26:41 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "T.W. Seddon" <T DOT W DOT Seddon AT ncl DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, Daniel Haude <HAUDE AT alpha5 DOT physnet DOT uni-hamburg DOT de>
Subject: Re: What is all this "timezone" stuff for?
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On 23 May 1996, T.W. Seddon wrote:

> What is all the data in the "timezone" directory tree good for? Is it needed
> for UNIX compatibility, and why? Just curious. I don't know a thing about UNIX.

If you want DJGPP to know the rules for daylight saving in your time 
zone, you can simply point TZ to the appropriate file in that directory, 
like this:

	set TZ=c:/djgpp/zoneinfo/japan

If your computer is in Japan, that line is all DJGPP time routines need 
to convert local time to GMT time.

You can safely delete (or compress) all the rest of the zoneinfo 
directory.