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Re: TZ environment variable
- From: Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago <marcos at laud dot it dot uc3m dot es>
- To: Kurt Roeckx <Q at ping dot be>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:49:17 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: TZ environment variable
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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