Re: [tz] zdump issues

Thom Hehl wrote:

Problem is when I run zdump it never seems to return anything different.

The argument to zdump isn't a filename, it's a $TZ setting. If your host system doesn't have the Olson tzfiles installed then you won't get interesting data from Olson zone names, because by default zdump will look for the file in the system zoneinfo directory. Unfortunately the failure mode when the file isn't found is uninformative. However, it should work if you give an *absolute* pathname to a tzfile, because that's one of the accepted forms of $TZ. E.g., "./zdump $PWD/tzdir/America/Anchorage". -zefram