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In article <PaLZ9DA9yHP2Ewoz@merlyn.demon.co.uk>, Dr John Stockton
<jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk> wrote
>>+   One person to mail me the timezone definitions for Unix, for 
>>    reference.
>
>Setting FU to poster (overridden) will not help achieve this singularity.

If I knew the correct file to grab I'd visit the Linux or FreeBSD
distributions and grab it - but it is 10+ years since I touched this
stuff on Unix and I've forgotten.  (I'll have another look around
though.)


>+   You could split the UK & Ireland from Portugal, so that the summertime
>    name can be "BST British Isles Summer Time"?

Good idea, thanks.

>The present scheme in Windows is designed for idiots, by Americans.

It is crazy that the primary geographical configuration for Windows 95
is the timezone.  And the secondary one is the language.  There are many
times when the actual (or native for laptops) country would be more
useful.

>Would it not be better, seeing as only the sagacious will use your
>software, to input the data more directly?

I hadn't thought of that.  As I write server software that runs
continuously on Windows boxen, an automatic mode can be invoked by my
installer.  (Although logs are maintained in UTC they are converted to
local time for display/printing.)

>Radio buttons for Hemisphere (Northern / Equatorial (no DST) / Southern)
>TZ number, with examples - say UK 12, Winnipeg 6, Delhi 17�, Tokyo 21

The number you've used is the hours East of the International Dateline?

>if N/S, Dates (Select Two): 
>    Last  Sun Mar
>    First Sun Apr
>    Last  Sun Oct
>    <any others that you (AN) know of>
[snip]

I thought I had established my ignorance already.  :-)

I'll be watching here for further suggestions, whilst I carry out a
little research ...


Cheers,
      Tony
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