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- >From: harvard!cybvax0!vcvax1!paul (Paul Kleppner)
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 86 18:58:56 est
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- Bob Devine's proposal on the /etc/TIMEZONE format (volume 5, #47)
- looks to me like a good solution to a complicated problem.
- I do have one suggestion, though: don't clutter the /etc/TIMEZONE file
- with Bourne shell syntax. If the file contained only the two actual values
- (separated by a space or tab) and not the "TZ=", "DST=",
- and "export" comands, it would be much easier to read by non-Bourne
- shells or by other programs, which would otherwise have to filter
- out the shell statements.
-
- I should point out that there is no loss in efficiency with this approach.
- The login initialization file /etc/profile, instead of containing the line,
-
- . /etc/TIMEZONE
-
- would contain the lines
-
- read TZ DST < /etc/TIMEZONE
- export TZ DST
-
- (I believe this will work correctly whether DST has 0 or 2 parts.)
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- Paul Kleppner
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- Volume-Number: Volume 5, Number 49
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