Re: [tz] question about mktime_tzname()

Arthur David Olson wrote:

The philosophical question: for such environment variables, in what year should application of daylight saving start (or should it apply to all years, no matter how far in the past)?

To all years, surely. (That's what I implemented in my Perl module that parses these.) The nature of a SysV-style setting doesn't place any restriction on its applicability. -zefram