Re: OpenVMS to support tz

In <news:3vipkg$u9n@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, Ken Cowan of Digital Equipment Corporation <cowan@rtl.enet.dec.com> writes ``The DEC C library interface to timezones should be available in the first field test of OpenVMS V7.0''. DEC will supply zic, and users should be able to use the latest master tz tables, or tweak their own.

Maybe they'll be able to beat Microsoft into supporting not only their current POSIX-influenced scheme, but the Olson scheme as well, on Microsoft's Win32-based OSes (Win32's "native" internal time formats are UTC rather than local time, although they may have to run the machine's clock in local time, at least if the machine is an IBM-compatible PC, in case somebody later boots DOS on it).