On Jan 20, 11:47am, elseifthen at gmx.com (J William Piggott) wrote: -- Subject: [tz] [PATCH 4/5] tzselect.ksh: time scales assumed | TZdate=`LANG=C TZ="$TZ_for_date" date` It would be good to stop using backquotes for command substitution at some point. We are requiring ksh for this script anyway... christos