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From: Georg Nikodym <georgn@Canada.Sun.COM>
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>>>>> "MB" == Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng> writes:

 MB> Maybe XEmacs shouldn't even be using the global symbol timezone.
 MB> Can't we replace this with the Posixy way, whatever that is?

timezone (page 662 of X/Open CAE Specification, System Interfaces and
Headers Issue 4, Version 2 [known informally and Spec1170 or UNIX95)
is an extension to POSIX.

It is an "extern long int" and you can expect to find it in <time.h>
(on a compliant system).

