Re: [MacPerl] time, date, and timezone

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 14:45 -0400 98/08/31, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
> } >While we're at it (;-) we could add the TZ "environment" variable,
>right?
> }
> } BTW, is someone keeping a MacPerl wishlist?  If so, this should go on
>it ...
>
> Why?

Because it would be useful?

>It's not a standard thing, AFAIK, on anything but Windows and

This is a reason not to do something useful?

> HP-UX (certainly not on Linux or SunOS).

Not true...
(The problems with standards is that there are so many of them).

Anyway,  SunOS (Solaris 5) does have $TZ.

A/UX (which borrowed liberally from both System V and BSD) had $TZ.

OSF/1 (the Dec Alpha) has a timezone command (not a C library, a command).

RedHat Linux does not.  I don't have access to all the other Linuxes (Linux
!= Linux).

> Since it's in Windows, it must be a bad idea 1/2 :-).

Or it means that occasionally Windows does steal good ideas :-)

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