On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 06:43 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > Don't judge the "Unix approach" by the idiosyncrasies of IBM, which > does worse than most other vendors. For example, in both Solaris > and OS X the file or link /etc/localtime provides the last resort > system default -- no need to keep the information in more than one > location. But it's not a POSIX requirement, and IBM doesn't do it.
Mmmmm - localtime is a handy reference. Still leaves the small matter of tzdata which must be kept up to date depending on the vagaries of various world-wide intellectual light-weights that happen to have fallen into positions of influence in their own little ponds. Despite Pauls protestations, even the (pure ????) *nix world is somewhat subject to the limitations of bureaucratic stupidity. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
