On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Anton Berezin wrote: > - if TZ environment variable is not set, TimeZone tries /etc/localtime, > which is present on FreeBSD. Unfortunately, on FreeBSD this file is > *NOT* a symlink to a timezone name, but a FreeBSD-specific binary file > (see tzfile(5) for details);
Slaven Rezic submitted a patch a while back that tries to figure out which file this is a copy of, specifically for annoying OS's like FreeBSD that do this ;) It's applied in CVS, and wlil be in the next release. > - even if TZ is set, it is very likely to contain something like "CET", That's not a time zone. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
