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Article #5879Re: Time Zones: A Plea for Standards?
From: Ralf.Brown
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 14:12
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 14:12
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In article <41161@genrad.UUCP>, jpn@genrad.com (John P. Nelson) wrote:
}There ARE no MSDOS calls that use TZ. The braindamaged MSC library uses
}it, but this is far from being a standard feature.
The reason that the MSC library uses it, as well as the TurboC/BorlandC and
probably most other MSDOS C compilers' libraries, is that those functions
which access TZ are fairly standard on Unix, and most C compilers strive for
Unix compatibility in their libraries.
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