Re: [Phpslash-devel] tz_select is linux specific?

[nathan r. h. <na...@ds...>]

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Joe Stewart wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Long time.
>

I know :(

> On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:45:13PM -0800, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> >
> > Can someone point me to an explaination of the new timezone stuff?  It
> > (at least, the default) no workie on MacOSX.
> >
>
> Hmm...
>
> I guess you need to set a timezone string until you figure out if MacOSX
> is unixlike or what.
>

It is unixlike, cept it doesn;t have a zone.tab file whihc is why things
are breaks.  this might be a lacking in POSIX compatibility...

> 424 ;; Finally, if all you are able to do is specify a string, do it like this:
> 425 ; name = "GMT+0BST,M4.1.0/1,M10.5.0/2";
>
> This is noted in the quick install docs ( Troubleshooting) for windows
> only so far.
> -=-=-=-=-
> Windows installations probably have to apply the Timezone Option name.
> These strings are documented online at
> http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.2.3/html_node/libc_431.html. Example for
> Eastern Daylight Time:
>
>        name = "EST+5EDT,M4.1.0/2,M10.5.0/2";
> -=-=-=-=-
> http://www.phpslash.org/article.php3?story_id=32&topic_id=39&section_id=8#ss2.2
>

Cool.. I take a poke.

-n
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