Time Settings was PMMail/2 closes unexpectedly

[John Angelico]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 23:44:03 -0400 (AST), Trevor Smith wrote:

>
>Unfortunately though, *ALMOST ALL* applications for OS/2 are
>programmed _incorrectly_ and they ignore the TZ variable when
>displaying the local time. In short, almost all OS/2 applications
>assume that the RTC is set to local time, not universal time.

Could this have something to do with the TZ variable being a recent addition to the CONFIG.SYS and thus programs 
built earlier had no choice but to assume local time from the RTC?




Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
Melbourne PC User Group Inc.
Email: talldad@melbpc.org.au or talldad@kepl.com.au
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