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Subject: Re: extern long timezone;
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From: Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
Date: 01 Jul 1997 18:59:54 +0200
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Georg Nikodym <georgn@Canada.Sun.COM> writes:

>  MB> Maybe XEmacs shouldn't even be using the global symbol timezone.
>  MB> Can't we replace this with the Posixy way, whatever that is?
> 
> timezone (page 662 of X/Open CAE Specification, System Interfaces and
> Headers Issue 4, Version 2 [known informally and Spec1170 or UNIX95)
> is an extension to POSIX.

Or http://www.rdg.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/timezone.html

(I am not sure whether these URL's are valid for others)

Jan

