In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/10/2008
at 04:08 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>There's a paradigm shift required here. The core UNIX function,
>localtime() does not "automatically switch to and from DST." Rather, if
>localtime() is called with the same argument and with the environment
>variables having the same values,
One of those environment variables is TZ and the spring forward/fall back
dates are optionally part of the TZ value.
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