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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup main.c tzmenu.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Apr 1996 16:45:33 PST."
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Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 10:43:48 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
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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TZ is obsolete, it isn't accumulate whole power of zoneinfo.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