Tony Glenning wrote on 1997-03-21 01:43 UTC:
I am not too familiar with all the varients of the POSIX strings. If you (or anyone else) could send me the standard (or a reference to the standard) regarding these strings, that would help out.
The POSIX format for describing a time zone rule in the TZ environment variable is defined in ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 (ANSI/IEEE Std 1003.1, 1996 Edition), Information technology--Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) Part 1: System Application Program Interface (API) [C Language], 896 pages, ISBN 1-55937-573-6, IEEE order number SH94352-NYF. Price: 120 USD (first copy for IEEE members: 84 USD). You can order this standard as well as all other IEEE standards directly from IEEE: phone: +1 908 981 1393 (TZ: eastern standard time) 1 800 678 4333 (toll free from US+Canada only) fax: +1 908 981 9667 e-mail: stds.info@ieee.org Information about POSIX and other IEEE standards is available on <http://stdsbbs.ieee.org/> and some information about POSIX on <http://www.knosof.co.uk/posix.html>. Unfortunately the full standard documents are only available as books or on CD-ROM, not on the Internet. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Science grad student, Purdue University, Indiana, USA -- email: kuhn@cs.purdue.edu