TZ environment variable
Andrew DeFaria
ADeFaria@Salira.com
Thu Apr 25 13:50:00 GMT 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.
$ 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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