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- From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
- Subject: Re: ELM / Time Zone problems?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.184409.5841@DSI.COM>
- Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc. Huntingdon Valley, PA
- References: <1992Sep12.220633.125807@Cookie.secapl.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 18:44:09 GMT
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- ckw@Cookie.secapl.com (Kirk Woerner) writes:
- > I've been using ELM for a while (on RS/6000's - AIX - KORN shell) and we
- >have two "networks" in two different time zones. Oddly enough, the sorting
- >mechanism in ELM doesn't seem to recognize that 6:00 PM EST is earlier then
- >5:30 PM CST. The time it reports is always the 'local' time no matter where
- >you are looking at it. Am I doing something wrong or is this bug? I have the
- >$TZ environment variable set on both machines (EST5EDT and CST6CDT). Any
- >help would be appreciated.
- 2.3 is time zone illeterate, 2.4 is time zone aware, if the date line is in
- RFC-822 format.
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- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.3PL11
- Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 2.4 Release: Oct 1,1992
- syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd Voice: (215) 947-9900, FAX: (215) 938-0235
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