TZ environment variable

Kurt Roeckx Q@ping.be
Wed Apr 24 17:57:00 GMT 2002


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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