Timezone processing (was Re: "cal 9 1752")

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <4393 at lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard at thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>OK...so what was the Arthur Olson approach? The TZ setup, at least in the
>System V release 2 systems I've used, seems like a very usable approach.

While there is nothing wrong with using an environment variable to name
the desired time zone, there IS something wrong with trying to encode
detailed time conversion rules within it.