Andy Poling wrote: ... > Am I missing something here? I thought that all modern unixes put the > time zone info in the environment via init... Yes, its format is -- varying.. TZ="EET-2EET DST-3,M3.5.0/04:00,M9.5.0/03:00" > -Andy > > '91 Miata: "ZIP" '96 A4 Quattro: "ZOOM" '84 Yam RZ350: "ZING" > '88 Bronco II 4WD: "ZZZZZ" /Matti Aarnio