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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:57:00 -0000
From: Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: TZ environment variable
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204241713410.9457-100000@laud.it.uc3m.es>; from marcos@laud.it.uc3m.es on Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:15:56PM +0200
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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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