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Re: TZ environment variable timezones

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Jonathan de Boyne Pollard

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Apr 6, 2010, 2:47:16 AM4/6/10
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> As far as I know, no apps ever uses these names for anything — so you
> can use whatever you want in the 3 letters, in my expirence
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They're used inasmuch as they're displayed by applications.

[H:\]set TZ=CET-1CEST
[H:\]saydate /f"%F %T %Z"
2010-04-06 08:36:21 CEST
[H:\]date /localformat /n
Current date is: Tue 06-04-2010 08:40:56 am CEST
[H:\]prompt $D $T $u [$P]
Tue 2010-04-06 08:37:43 CEST [H:\]

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