Subject: Re: New time routines
To: roe2 AT midway DOT uchicago DOT edu (Cave Newt)
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 09:23:31 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Henrik Storner <storner AT olicom DOT dk>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

Greg Roelofs writes:

> As Eli and others have written, the posixrules file is all that is re-
> quired for basic TZ settings to work, and I can live with distributing
> that if need be.  I have yet to see any details on where this file is
> supposed to be installed or what environment variables are required

This is determined by the tzdir() function in ctime.c . The beta3 version
has code for the following places:

   - a directory pointed to by the TZDIR env. variable
   - the subdirectory 'zoneinfo' below DJDIR
   - current directory

used in that order.
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