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Article #5859Re: Time Zones: A Plea for Standards?
From: John P. Nelson
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1991 18:44
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1991 18:44
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>The TZ environment variable is part of MS-DOS.
Huh? MSDOS has no special knowledge of the TZ environment variable.
>Programs should not use it
>directly, but should use the supplied MS-DOS calls, as in the following MSC
>program:
There ARE no MSDOS calls that use TZ. The braindamaged MSC library uses
it, but this is far from being a standard feature.
As far as I'm concerned, TZ should not be used. Period.
john nelson
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