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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Clock widget for different timezones
Message-ID: <8633@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 30 Jun 91 02:00:31 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>It seems to me that the point of this resource would be to force some
>kind of system-independent behavior.  We could define a set of values
>that would be "sufficient for all purposes".  Since we're out here in
>Unix-land, we could define the syntax for TZ to be sufficient.

Yes, but *whose* syntax for "TZ"?  The old one used up to SVR3.1?  The
SVR3.1 one?  The POSIX one?  The one used in more and more UNIX systems,
i.e. POSIX with the added stipulation that if the name starts with ":",
the rest of the name is a pathname - relative to the default timezone
directory if it doesn't begin with "/" - for an Arthur Olson-style
timezone file?

>I doubt that many non-Unix systems would find this to be insufficient for most
>purposes.

They wouldn't, but they might find some tricky to implement - especially
the last, unless they pick up the Arthur Olson code and actually load up
time zone files.