Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:4247 From: lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: What is all this "timezone" stuff for? Date: 24 May 1996 00:00:45 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4o2u7d$d2t@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <4o15on$euh AT rzsun02 DOT rrz DOT uni-hamburg DOT de> <4o2cr8$rd4 AT white DOT twinsun DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fb0408.mathematik.th-darmstadt.de To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Paul Eggert (eggert AT twinsun DOT com) wrote: : HAUDE AT alpha5 DOT physnet DOT uni-hamburg DOT de (Daniel Haude) writes: : >What is all the data in the "timezone" directory tree good for? Is it needed : >for UNIX compatibility, and why? : Yes. In Unix, or in any Posix-compliant system (e.g. Windows NT :-), : times are stored in UTC and are converted to and from localtime as needed. : This is particularly important to get right when computers are : connected in networks that span time zones. The files in question : contain information for various time zones around the world, used in : these conversions. Are these files used during compilation or during runtime? Maybe it would be useful to put all these files into an ar archive, this should save a bit of space. bye, Alexander -- Alexander Lehmann, | "On the Internet, alex AT hal DOT rhein-main DOT de (plain, MIME, NeXT) | nobody knows lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (plain) | you're a dog." !!CHANGED!!