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[Carter Bullard]

Hey Russell,
Good suggestion!!!!  We added the "-M " so we could add options without
having to use up a character.  So I have added a "-M TZ=" option and
here are some examples that do work:

    -M TZ=PST8
    -M TZ=EST5EDT4,M3.2.0/02,M11.1.0/02

These values are cool for the TZ environment variable, so they work  
here.
This now works for all ra*programs, and the command line option will
override anything that is in the .rarc file.   Also you can feed the  
option
to ratop() using the 'M' , "Specify modes:" command.
I have not updated the manpages or the usage() prompts.  I'll try to
get that out when I send up rc.40.

Of course, the value that you set TZ to must conform to
what the tzset libraries are expecting for it
to work.

Is that cool?

Carter

On Feb 13, 2007, at 3:48 PM, Russell Fulton wrote:

>
>
> Carter Bullard wrote:
>>
>>
>> For argus-3.0, the .rarc configuration file for ra* programs,  
>> allows you
>> to set theTZ environment variable to change the timezone, if you  
>> think
>> you
>> need to, or would like to.  Check out the ./support/Config/rarc  
>> example
>> file for how to use this function.
>>
> this would be useful to have exposed on the command line.   Normally I
> want time in local time (NZ{S|D}T) but from time to time I need stuff
> for sending else where and I will print the data in UTC.  I do this by
> changing the TZ setting for the terminal session.  (I have also been
> known to send logs in the recipients local timezone when I have  
> known it ;).
>
> Do we have any flags left. I guess if I suggest that we go to multi
> character command line options I'll have to volunteer to rewrite the
> parser ;)
>
> Russell.
>

Carter Bullard
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