Re: Timezone setting GMT0BST-1

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From: Chris Croughton
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:00

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On Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:52:26 +0100 (BST), Dave Scott 
   <dave@roborat.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I've already got a DJGPP specific fn. for backward compatibility with
>the Borland versions, gtzset(). At the moment this simply looks for the
>GTZ env.var., and if found uses it to set/override the TZ variable. I'm
>thinking of extending this to strip out the 2nd offset, i.e. looking for
>any numeric present between the 2nd zone name (BST) and the comma, and
>removing it before calling the real (native to DJGPP) tzset() fn.
>
>Can anyone see any flaws with this, or suggest anything better?

The only real flaw with assuming that the offset is -1 hour is if you
find somewhere with summer time not an hour behind winter time (-0.5 and
-2 seem the most likely).  However, I don't know of any countries who do
that, so it's only a philosophical objection.  Of course, if MSDOG ran
on UTC all the time like real operating systems do <g>...

Chris C

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