On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 12:40:06PM -0700, Charles Randall wrote:
> On my FreeBSD 3.3R system, /usr/include/time.h includes a prototype for the
> timezone() function. The timezone(3) manual page indicates that this
> function is for compatibility purposes only and notes that the timezone()
> function first appeared in AT&T Unix V7.
>
> Version 2 of the Single Unix Specification (www.opengroup.org) states that
> time.h defines a global variable named timezone which indicates the
> difference in seconds between the local timezone and UTC. It also notes that
> this is, "Derived from Issue 1 of the SVID." I don't know what that means.
SVID == System V Interface Definition.
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