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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Time Zones: A Plea for Standards?
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Date: 20 Apr 91 14:12:29 GMT
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In article <41161@genrad.UUCP>, jpn@genrad.com (John P. Nelson) wrote:
}There ARE no MSDOS calls that use TZ.  The braindamaged MSC library uses
}it, but this is far from being a standard feature.

The reason that the MSC library uses it, as well as the TurboC/BorlandC and
probably most other MSDOS C compilers' libraries, is that those functions
which access TZ are fairly standard on Unix, and most C compilers strive for
Unix compatibility in their libraries.

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