TZ... Again (OT)

[Simon Bowring]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:21:07 -0400 (AST), Trevor Smith wrote:

>You are completely correct about this, of course. This is one of the
>reasons why OS/2 *SHOULD* have a TZ environment variable built in and
>why it should expect the RTC to run in UT.
>
>Unfortunately, the folks who built OS/2 thought copying DOS was "good
>enough". Instead they should have copied Unix.

I agree, although it would have introduced the RTC "creep" problem
on mutiple boot systems with OS/2 and DOS or Windows, because windows
considers the RTC to run in local time too!  

Simon