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

[Jay Maynard]

In article <28082 at mimsy.umd.edu> chris at mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
>Of course, now that Unix is being `internationalized', someone will
>have to fix `cal'.  Clearly the right answer is to adopt the System V
>convention, and code the rules into an environment variable. :-)

>(The above was intended as a sarcastic comment about SV `TZ' rules.
>Why POSIX did not just adopt the Arthur Olson approach is beyond me.)

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.
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