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RE: CRON and time
- To: <ehud at unix dot simonwiesel dot co dot il>, "Trikkaliotis Niklos" <nikolaos dot trikkaliotis at serfrance dot fr>
- Subject: RE: CRON and time
- From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej dot Borsenkow at mow dot siemens dot ru>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:14:27 +0400
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
>
> The above information is contained in tzset(3) and tzfile(5) man pages.
> Regretfully, the zic program was not ported to Cygwin and the above man
> pages are not in the distribution, and the localtime(3) man page that
> is included with Cygwin has MUCH less information then the Linux
> localtime(3) man page.
>
> I have the zic source and I'll try porting it.
>
While it is better than nothing - I believe, proper implementation in Cygwin
should take timezone information from Windows. Having two different places
to configure local timezone is confusing.
And is TZ format compatible between Unix and Windows?
-andrej
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