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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xclock
Message-ID: <3576@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 29 Jun 90 20:50:00 GMT
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>A long time ago when our kernels were a few weeks out of sync wrt
>the change in the change in Eastern Standard Time to Daylight
>Savings Time (or vice-versa, I don't remember now), I hacked in
>a -offset flag, so the answer is "yes".  The hack didn't stay.

If you're running a sufficiently modern version of UNIX (System III/V -
although only later S5 versions can cope with DST outside the US; SunOS
4.0 and later; 4.3-tahoe and later; etc.), you don't need it - you just
set the TZ environment variable for the process running "xclock", and
off you go....