Date:         Sat, 27 Mar 1999 01:01:47 GMT
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From:         Ian Collier <imc@COMLAB.OX.AC.UK>
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
Subject:      Re: how to get timezone in os/2 in classic rexx
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Mixxerdw@eye_eye_echs.com entertained comp.lang.rexx with the following story:
>Well, if it has been put in the CONFIG.SYS where it belongs:
 
>D:\work\rexxtry say value('TZ',,OS2ENVIRONMENT)
>CST6CDT
 
Ah yes, but is it CST or CDT right now?  Also it is possible to set TZ
to a complicated string with lots of numbers specifying the DST rules,
so you need a program which understands those.
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