To: cgg AT mundil DOT cs DOT mu DOT oz DOT au (Christopher Geoffrey GRINTON)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: TZ problems using RCS and ar 
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 94 14:14:09 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

> I've noticed that times reported using ar and RCS (the version for DOS, from 
> the simtel archive) are different.
> I've played with the TZ variable, and have it set to EDT+0 to make RCS work 
> correctly.  The TZ variable on the unix machine at uni is set to 
> EDT-11EST-10;85/2:00,304/2:00.  I live in Melbourne, Australia.  I have no 
> idea what all of this means, so I hope that someone out there does!

With what version of DJGPP were these programs compiled?  DJGPP before
1.12maint1 had problems in its time routines which would yield the
results you are describing.

> correctly.  The TZ variable on the unix machine at uni is set to 
> EDT-11EST-10;85/2:00,304/2:00.  I live in Melbourne, Australia.  I have no 
> idea what all of this means, so I hope that someone out there does!

The syntax of the TZ variable is described fully on the ctime(3) man
page; you will have to access a Unix system to read it.