Re: Oz TZ Abbrev.

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From: Nick Andrew
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 21:20

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rjl@spectre.apana.org.au (Richard Lindner) writes:

>thanks to everyone who mailed me on this one. opinions varied betwixt
>advices offered, but it seems that taking all the comments together, there 
>_is_no_  standard so far as this is concerned.

For what it's worth, POSIX 1003.1 defines the required CONTENTS of the TZ
environment variable, but in that section of the standard there is no
list of acceptable timezone names.

Nick.
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Subject: Re: Oz TZ Abbrev.
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