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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Clock widget for different timezones
Message-ID: <8488@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 22 Jun 91 03:07:41 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>A customer wants to have a row of clocks showing different timezones.
>Unfortunately the clock widget doesn't handle that case very well.
>But a little simple hackery should suffice.

Even less hackery should suffice on modern UNIX systems that understand
the TZ environment variable (4.3-tahoe and later, SunOS 4.0 and later,
S5-based systems, etc.) - just run "xclock", or whatever, with TZ set to
the appropriate time zone.  (How well it deals with daylight savings
time, of course, depends on how well the code that handles TZ deals with
it; systems with the Arthur Olson time zone code, such as 4.3-tahoe and
later, SunOS 4.0 and later, System V Release 4, and others, handle it
quite well.)