[Coco] NitrOS-9/OS-9 feature suggestion

[George Ramsower]

On 8/9/2015 12:33 AM, K. Pruitt wrote:
> So New Zealand is +12:45 minutes off of GMT.
>
> Couldn't be off on the hour, or even the half hour. Had to be off on 
> the three quarters of the hour mark.
>
> Way to make things difficult, New Zealand.
>
> How does Linux store basic time zone info and also does Linux now 
> store location info (lat and long coordinates)?
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "K. Pruitt"
> Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2015 9:43 PM
> Subject: [Coco] NitrOS-9/OS-9 feature suggestion
>
>
>> I think a flag somewhere in the system would be useful to indicate 
>> the CoCo's time-zone.
>>
>> This could be very useful for a lot of time-based utilities.
>>
>> Perhaps the offset from GMT along with the status of DST stored in a 
>> file in the SYS directory?
>>
>> It would have to be a standard to be truly useful.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
  I was looking into this very subject a few days ago. There are several 
locations of odd time zones.
  Do a Google for "world time zones" and you will find many with odd 
time offsets.

George R.