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From: boutin@hansen.ncd.com (Paul Boutin)
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Subject: Re: Clock widget for different timezones
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Date: 26 Jun 91 07:50:51 GMT
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In article <8488@auspex.auspex.com>, guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
|> 
|> 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.)

Guy, I suspect that you are an accomplished Unix programmer, given your use 
of the adverb "just" in the above sentence :-).  I much prefer a straight
offset from current local time, although I opted for specifying minutes instead 
of hours, so I can make up for skewed system times and also set my desk xclock
ten minutes fast on meeting days.  TZ is useful, but try to figure out that it
even exists, let alone how to specify it, if you're a new or infrequent user...

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