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Re: [h-e-w] TZ in Win2k
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Michael R. Wolf |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] TZ in Win2k |
Date: |
21 Jan 2003 14:35:50 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
> Bin Zhang <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I installed Windows port of GNU rcs as instructed in the NTEmacs
> > website. RCS wouldn't run without setting TZ environmental
> > variable. What should I set TZ as (I'm in Hawaii, GMT-10:00)? I tried
> > GMT-10:00, HST, -10:00.
>
> You TZ variable should be a combination of the first two, except that
> timezones are backwards (my theory is that TZ was invented in the
> US, and the US did not want to be negative). Also, specifying the
> minutes is optional, and I think it is implementation dependant
> whether a colon is used (at least on Windows where most
> implementations do not follow the POSIX spec for TZ)
>
> so TZ=HST10 should give you the correct times now.
A navigator's rhyme could help with the positive/negative issue:
East is least
West is best
Not a judgement, just a mnemonic.
--
Michael R. Wolf
All mammals learn by playing!
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- [h-e-w] TZ in Win2k, Bin Zhang, 2003/01/20
- RE: [h-e-w] TZ in Win2k, Sprenger, Karel, 2003/01/21
- Re: [h-e-w] TZ in Win2k, Bin Zhang, 2003/01/21
- Re: [h-e-w] TZ in Win2k, Jason Rumney, 2003/01/21
- Re: [h-e-w] TZ in Win2k, Michael R. Wolf, 2003/01/21
- Re: [h-e-w] TZ in Win2k, Jason Rumney, 2003/01/21
- Re: [h-e-w] TZ in Win2k, Michael R. Wolf, 2003/01/21
- Re: [h-e-w] TZ in Win2k, Jason Rumney, 2003/01/22
Re: [h-e-w] TZ in Win2k, Jason Rumney, 2003/01/21