Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:59:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago To: Corinna Vinschen Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: TZ environment variable In-Reply-To: <20020424172445.N29777@cygbert.vinschen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Tip of the day: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/envvar.html > > Corinna Thanks, but I looked at it and doesn't refer to ":characters" or say what values (in characters) can this variable have. >> START SNIP TZ Timezone information. The contents of the environment variable named TZ are used by the ctime(), localtime(), strftime() and mktime() functions, and by various utilities, to override the default timezone. The value of TZ has one of the two forms (spaces inserted for clarity): :characters or: std offset dst offset, rule << END SNIP thx, m4c. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/