On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> Well. On OSes using David Olson's tzcode/tzdata package (which
> I'm familiar with) such as all modern BSDs and probably Solaris,
> SunOS, OSF1/Ultrix/Digital Unix/Compaq Tru64, and Ultrix, there
> is a function tzsetwall(3) which does exactly what you need --
Aha! I wasn't aware of tzsetwall(). Thank you. It does look to be
exactly what is needed to fix the original problem.
> In my opinion, the best thing to do is to provide an option
> whether to use UTC or local time, as there are people who prefer
> their logs in UTC for various reasons
That is what I will do. It's a small enough thing, and then everybody
will be happy!
> Because of time ambiguity, it would be nice to provide the option
> to include timezone name in the logs. Some people would like it
> (I would probably enable it).
Surprisingly, it would be a lot or work, because log-scanning programs
like eximstats and eximon assume a fixed length for the timestamp.
Also, I don't think timezone names are very well standardized.
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