Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 10:43:48 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, nate@sneezy.sri.com, joerg@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrsbin@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup main.c tzmenu.c Message-ID: <199604030243.KAA18425@jhome.DIALix.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Apr 1996 16:45:33 PST." <199604030045.QAA19333@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>> Note that even tzsetup itself does set `TZ' to some value (to be used >> later in the game for a localtime(3) calculation)... > >TZ is obsolete, it isn't accumulate whole power of zoneinfo. No, it's not obsolete. TZ is used to select which Zone from the zoneinfo database. I do this often to avoid having to do a mental calculation of the time where somebody is located. Normally here we have TZ=Australia/Perth etc, and I sometimes temporarily set it to TZ=America/Los_Angeles and so on. Cheers, -Peter
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