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Date:	Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:22:08 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: daylight saving major change in 2007 ?

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Bob wrote:
>
> > I'm a properly-set clock fanatic (to the consternation
> > of at least one other SCOUG member, hiya Steven).
>
> Yes, we know all to well.

Bob, I'll add you to the list. :-)

> Here is all you need to know about the TZ variable for eCS.

Thanks, I do have the params (and they're the same for OS/2 as for eCS).

What I need to know is:

-- Are there program calls (perhaps PM, perhaps WPS, perhaps in
platforms such as Java or XFree86, perhaps in add-on libraries) which
return "adjusted" clock values, or instead is it up to each application
program to simply obtain the TZ environment value and adjust as desired.

-- Does some component of the operating system change the clock when
crossing a Daylight Saving boundary? (I haven't seen this happen but
I'd like some kind of confirmation one way or the other.)

> I don't know of a mailing list but the TZ
> is documented but I don't remember where.

It's probably in an IBM Redbook somewhere.

I just went to http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ and searched on "tz" but saw
nothing relevant. However, I think the Redbook search engine isn't a
full text search a la Google.

I have a number of Redbooks that I've downloaded over the years but
they're all PDF and I don't have a search tool that can look inside PDF
files. I'll post that question separately.

Thanks,

- Peter

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