Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:42:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> Message-ID: <200104210042.RAA08396@shade.twinsun.com> | OK, how about this idea? If TZ='Australia/Sydney:' then use numeric | abbreviations. The basic idea is to append a suffix that cannot | possibly be part of a portable POSIX file name. I guess we could, though I'm not overly enamoured with the "cannot possibly be part of a portable POSIX file name" part. We should certainly not be presuming that any such names can be used, and should not be naming zones in non-portable ways, but if someone decides to name a timezone file /path/to/EST:EDT (and it happens to work on his system) I'd prefer not to break things. Of course, it can be documented that ':' is magic in TZ file names (or what would otherwise be a TZ file name) but it does seem a bit ugly. The "alternative" form of TZ setting has more flexibility here, as they're defining a syntax for the value of the TZ variable which is not just "any local path name", and hence can shoe horn in almost anything they want. | Since POSIX is adding | support for "+1000", it might be nice if the Olson extension added | similar support. Yes, the only issue is just how that is made to happen. kre