"Anand Shankar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Further can some one point to the relevant requirements under either > POSIX Specifications or Linux Standards Base? > POSIX Specs say that there is no need to fix it. One should set the TZ environment variable to a time zone literal. Further it does not object to "Olson Time Zones" in which ... one must write it as Asia/Kolkata for e.g. Use of capital cities of countries are NOT recommended anywhere. POSIX does not specify politics. Use of a string of cities in the display can be most user-friendly, but Kolkata is POSIX-ok too :) Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/