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From: jpn@genrad.com (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Time Zones: A Plea for Standards?
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Date: 19 Apr 91 18:44:35 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.200244.7775@cc.curtin.edu.au> <No5H110w164w@mantis.co.uk>
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>The TZ environment variable is part of MS-DOS.

Huh?  MSDOS has no special knowledge of the TZ environment variable.

>Programs should not use it
>directly, but should use the supplied MS-DOS calls, as in the following MSC
>program:

There ARE no MSDOS calls that use TZ.  The braindamaged MSC library uses
it, but this is far from being a standard feature.

As far as I'm concerned, TZ should not be used.  Period.

     john nelson

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