TZ environment variable

TZ environment variable

[Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago]

Easy question:
	Which values are valid for the TZ environment variable?

I looked all the manpages (linux & windows manpages) but found nothing
refering to this variable. I know that perl and cygwin look at this
variable to display localtime and I need to know if my configuration is
set correctly.

thanx!
m4c.


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Re: TZ environment variable

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:15:56PM +0200, Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago wrote:
> Easy question:
> 	Which values are valid for the TZ environment variable?
> 
> I looked all the manpages (linux & windows manpages) but found nothing
> refering to this variable. I know that perl and cygwin look at this
> variable to display localtime and I need to know if my configuration is
> set correctly.

Tip of the day: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/envvar.html

Corinna

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Re: TZ environment variable

[Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

     > Tip of the day: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/envvar.html
     >
     > Corinna

Thanks, but I looked at it and doesn't refer to ":characters" or say what
values (in characters) can this variable have.


>> START SNIP
TZ
 Timezone information. The contents of the environment variable named TZ
are used by the ctime(), localtime(), strftime() and mktime() functions,
and by various utilities, to override the default timezone. The value of
TZ has one of the two forms (spaces inserted for clarity):

:characters

 or:

std offset dst offset, rule
<< END SNIP



thx,
m4c.


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Re: TZ environment variable

[Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

     > Tip of the day: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/envvar.html
     >
     > Corinna

Thanks, but I looked at it and doesn't refer to ":characters" or say what
values (in characters) can this variable have.


>> START SNIP
TZ
 Timezone information. The contents of the environment variable named TZ
are used by the ctime(), localtime(), strftime() and mktime() functions,
and by various utilities, to override the default timezone. The value of
TZ has one of the two forms (spaces inserted for clarity):

:characters

 or:

std offset dst offset, rule
<< END SNIP



thx,
m4c.


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Re: TZ environment variable

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:15:56PM +0200, Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago wrote:
> Easy question:
> 	Which values are valid for the TZ environment variable?
> 
> I looked all the manpages (linux & windows manpages) but found nothing
> refering to this variable. I know that perl and cygwin look at this
> variable to display localtime and I need to know if my configuration is
> set correctly.

Try man tzset.

Basicly, you can set it to anything you find in the "zoneinfo"
(/usr/share/zoneinfo)


Kurt


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Re: TZ environment variable

[Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Kurt Roeckx wrote:

     > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:15:56PM +0200, Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago wrote:
     > > Easy question:
     > > 	Which values are valid for the TZ environment variable?
     > >
     > > I looked all the manpages (linux & windows manpages) but found nothing
     > > refering to this variable. I know that perl and cygwin look at this
     > > variable to display localtime and I need to know if my configuration is
     > > set correctly.
     >
     > Try man tzset.
     >
     > Basicly, you can set it to anything you find in the "zoneinfo"
     > (/usr/share/zoneinfo)
     >
     >

Well I already tried looking that manpage. I was looking for documentation
on setting TZ variable as characters, ie: TZ=CEST-1CET, not the files
which I can set.

thx,
m4c.


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Re: TZ environment variable

[Andrew DeFaria]

Kurt Roeckx wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:15:56PM +0200, Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago 
> wrote:
>
>> Easy question:
>> Which values are valid for the TZ environment variable?
>>
>> I looked all the manpages (linux & windows manpages) but found 
>> nothing refering to this variable. I know that perl and cygwin look 
>> at this variable to display localtime and I need to know if my 
>> configuration is set correctly.
>
> Try man tzset.

$ man tzset
No manual entry for tzset

> Basicly, you can set it to anything you find in the "zoneinfo" 
> (/usr/share/zoneinfo)

$ ls /usr/share/zoneinfo
ls: /usr/share/zoneinfo: No such file or directory




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Re: TZ environment variable

[Nancy McGough]

On 25 Apr 2002 Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago (marcos@laud.it.uc3m.es) wrote:
> Well I already tried looking that manpage. I was looking for documentation
> on setting TZ variable as characters, ie: TZ=CEST-1CET, not the files
> which I can set.

There's a list of possible TZ settings here:

 <http://www.ufaq.org/navcom/settz.html>

If anyone knows of a better list, please let me know because I
link to this on my Power Pine page.

Thanks,
Nancy


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Re: TZ environment variable

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Hallo Nancy,

Am 2002-04-26 um 16:07 schriebst du:

> On 25 Apr 2002 Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago (marcos@laud.it.uc3m.es) wrote:
>> Well I already tried looking that manpage. I was looking for documentation
>> on setting TZ variable as characters, ie: TZ=CEST-1CET, not the files
>> which I can set.

> There's a list of possible TZ settings here:

>  <http://www.ufaq.org/navcom/settz.html>

Not a list of possible settings but good explanation:
http://toi.iriti.cnr.it/en/timezone.html

Here you can lookup what offset your country has regarding UTC:
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/tzones.html


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RE: TZ environment variable

[Kilroy, David]

Might not be for cygwin, but valid on at least one unix, and very explicit
though it doesn't list the timezone abbreviations:

http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?environ+5


Dave.


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> From: Nancy McGough [mailto:nm-this-address-is-valid@no.sp.am]
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 10:08 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: TZ environment variable
> 
> 
> On 25 Apr 2002 Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago 
> (marcos@laud.it.uc3m.es) wrote:
> > Well I already tried looking that manpage. I was looking 
> for documentation
> > on setting TZ variable as characters, ie: TZ=CEST-1CET, not 
> the files
> > which I can set.
> 
> There's a list of possible TZ settings here:
> 
>  <http://www.ufaq.org/navcom/settz.html>
> 
> If anyone knows of a better list, please let me know because I
> link to this on my Power Pine page.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nancy
> 
> 
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