Date: Wed, 16 Mar 94 10:37:00 EST From: dave AT babel DOT ho DOT att DOT com (Dave Hayden 908- 946-1107) To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: Re: ctime() and TZ Forwarding: Mail from 'Mailer-Daemon' dated: Wed, 16 Mar 94 10:23:57 EST The problem with keeping a DOS PC on GMT is that all your non-djgpp programs will report the "wrong" time. Most notably, "dir" will report file times in GMT. To solve this problem, I keep my PC on Eastern time and set TZ=EST0EDT. This seems to keep everything happy - and showing a consistent time. Dave Hayden dave AT echologic DOT com