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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Andrew DeFaria Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: TZ environment variable Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:43:37 -0700 Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3CC85C69.5060006@Salira.com> References: <20020425020039.A460@ping.be> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.204.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019763808 10491 206.184.204.2 (25 Apr 2002 19:43:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:43:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:15:56PM +0200, Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago > wrote: > >> Easy question: >> Which values are valid for the TZ environment variable? >> >> I looked all the manpages (linux & windows manpages) but found >> nothing refering to this variable. I know that perl and cygwin look >> at this variable to display localtime and I need to know if my >> configuration is set correctly. > > Try man tzset. $ man tzset No manual entry for tzset > Basicly, you can set it to anything you find in the "zoneinfo" > (/usr/share/zoneinfo) $ ls /usr/share/zoneinfo ls: /usr/share/zoneinfo: No such file or directory -- 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/