> ---Quote (Originally by rconn)---
> That's an undocumented and unsupported variable name. If you're
> looking for the time zone offset, use %_tzo.
>
> (How did you come across _TIMEZONE -- were you browsing the strings in
> takecmd.dll?)
> ---End Quote---
> In this case, I did not browse the strings in the .DLL, though I admit
> to having done things like that in the past. Not this time. This
> was innocent.
>
> I came across it testing out the new feature in V11 using F9 for
> completion of internal variable names. I typed the underscore and
> then F9 repeatedly, looking at all the names it generated. When I saw
> _TIMEZONE, I was curious, of course, and looked at the value. (I
> presume that's the "standard" number of minutes offset from UTC,
> without taking daylight time into account.) Then I looked for it in
> V10 and found it was there, too.
>
> As long as it's there, why not document it? Can't hurt anyone, I
> suspect.