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echo: os2
to: Darren Hamilton
from: Coridon Henshaw
date: 1999-09-15 13:39:13
subject: Os2clu02 & Utc

On Monday September 13 1999 at 19:56, Darren Hamilton wrote to Jonathan de
Boyne Pollar:

 DH> Every other software on this system reports or displays UTC time as
 DH> the "local" time. This includes OS/2 Warp v3.0 (FP 40) time and date
 DH> functions, Filestar/2, KWQ Mail/2, ZOC/Pro v3.13, etc.

 DH> I find it hard to believe that *every* programmer is querying the RTC
 DH> rather than using the DosQuerySysInfo API function.

The only ways to make OS2CLU's time-related commands get along with every
other piece of time-related OS/2 software ever written is to either SET
TZ=AAA1 (during DST), or launch OS2CLU's time programs with the /U option.

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