Re: Solaris 2.7 Daylight saving time fix.

>old school "?STx?DT"  TZ format (to US/Central for example) and the other 
>is to ditch the solaris zdump for the nih one.  I'm still hoping for a 
>response but it was indicated that Sun holds that the ?STx?DT format 
>precludes using any zoneinfo files - not sure where it gets the info then 
>(one of libc or libdl? time()?) but ....

The POSIX standard *requires* that the ?STx?DT format precludes
the use of zone files.

Any OS which uses the zoneinfo files is not compliant when the $TZ
variable can be parsed under the POSIX rules.

Casper