From: Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...> - 2004-04-01 02:52:23
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On Thursday, Apr 1, 2004, at 02:16 Australia/Sydney, Kevin Kenny wrote: > lv...@ca... said: >> Maybe I am missing someting obvious here - can't we also provide a >> configure flag for someone to specify , if they so desire, that tcl >> should use the files at /my/timezone/path rather than built in files > > That's certainly viable if you're building from source. It's > a bit more problematic for the keepers of binary distributions. > If we go with a Linux configuration that uses the Olson files, > it's trivial to add such a flag to the configurator, and I'd > presume that's what we'd do. FWIW, Mac OS X has /usr/share/zoneinfo, and I suspect other *BSDs do as well. There is nothing Linux specific here Cheers, Daniel -- ** Daniel A. Steffen ** "And now for something completely ** Dept. of Mathematics ** different" Monty Python ** Macquarie University ** <mailto:st...@ma...> ** NSW 2109 Australia ** <http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~steffen/> |