Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 10:31:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: adjkerntz (was: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup ...) Message-ID: <199604050831.KAA24540@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604050250.GAA00789@astral.msk.su> from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" at Apr 5, 96 06:50:40 am
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As =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= wrote: > > rarely the case for me.) What if i use my own package to export/ > > import DOS files? (Yes, i really wrote one as paywork years ago. It > > Your package must handle timezone in this case. How if i don't know in which timezone the floppy i just wanna read has been created? What about mtools? You can argue how you want: DOS has simply ignored the problem for too long, and now that the technology has been rolling all over it, it's too late for a general solution. That's typical for DOS... > DOS have TZ environment variable (all C implmentations handle it). Well, dir(1) (not that there's really a man page section one, but so you know what i mean :) cannot handle it if i insert a floppy that came from USA, for example. TZ is solely handled by C runtime systems, and at least for my very old TC 2.0 (the only C system i've still got around), the TZ handling is buggy. I've just started pcemu and wrote a small test program: setting TZ affects both, localtime(3) and gmtime(3) similarly. Last not least, DOS timezone idea is broken. You can find work- arounds, and they might be working for you most of the time, but they remain workarounds for something that has been misdesigned in the first place. I won't do anything in my Unix systems to correct their mistakes. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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