Re: [BUG REPORT] WML 1.7.4, AverageOS 0.8.15

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 Kurt@openldap.org wrote:

> BUG REPORT
> 
> Package: WML 1.7.4
> Operating System: AverageOS 0.8.15
> 
> Problem Description:
> | (feature request)
> | 
> | WML_SRC_ISOTIME and other time variables defined
> | by wml(1) provide the time string adjusted to the
> | current user's timezone settings.  In our environment,
> | fixing the timezone to GMT would be much more
> | appropriate.  Though we could require each user
> | to adjust their TZ settings before running wml(1),
> | this is ackward.
> | 
> | I suggest that some mechanism to specify the
> | timezone to use for these variables be provided
> | OR that GMT versions of the defines be provided.

Well, i did not find any good solution to your problem, the simplest is to
define new variables. Do WML_SRC_GMT_CTIME, WML_SRC_GMT_ISOTIME... sound
good to you?

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer


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