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From: Markku.Savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela)
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Subject: What is the proper way of adjusting time for DST and non-DST (sr10.2)
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Date: 30 Sep 90 16:48:21 GMT
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   It's again that time of year. For some reason I have to manually
adjust the time on this Apollo, because Daylight Savings time ended
here in Finland...

   I can do it either by twiddling with TZ (I have now TZ=EET-2) or
use "date" (but, on Apollo adjusting backwards seems to frowned upon).
   When I try it, I get..

# date 9009301843

  ...but, "man date" doesn't seem to know about either of those
options (-a or -f)... don't like to blindly test things while as
root... :-).

  Changing TZ in a common Login script has the drawback, that it
doesn't affect processes already running.. :(

  So, how does one correctly adjust to DST/no-DST twice a year?
(I wish it was automatic, but it doesn't seem to be. I suppose
I don't know enough yet... )
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Markku Savela                         | savela@tel.vtt.fi
Technical Research Centre of Finland  |
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