On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Philippe REUX wrote:
> It happens that there are so many time zone / geographical
> locations combinations that locale doesn't support that for the
> time beeing, I'd prefer to stay with TZ.
>
> In my case, living in the French archipelago of St.Pierre et Miquelon,
> near the east coast of Canada ( Country Code PM, lat 46°47' N,
> long 56°11' W not supported by locale.library which can't understand
> I am both in France and at UTC - 2, same time zone as Greenland ),
> this is a real problem.
Almost *nobody* can rely on Locale to have both timezone and geographic
location correct simultaneously, simply because Locale doesn't support
Daylight Savings Time (Summer Time). However, TZ is also problematic
because of all the different (and buggy, in the case of SAS/C)
interpretations of its contents. The only timezone variable I know of
that works really correctly and consistently is IXGMTOFFSET, but that's
only set up if you use ixemul.
Fred Wright
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