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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Timezone processing (was Re: "cal 9 1752")
Message-ID: <14644@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 3 Dec 90 14:46:14 GMT
References: <28082@mimsy.umd.edu> <4393@lib.tmc.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <4393@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>OK...so what was the Arthur Olson approach? The TZ setup, at least in the
>System V release 2 systems I've used, seems like a very usable approach.

While there is nothing wrong with using an environment variable to name
the desired time zone, there IS something wrong with trying to encode
detailed time conversion rules within it.