Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!apple!agate!shelby!neon!lucid.com!jwz From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti.explorer Subject: Re: microExplorer timestamps and Zmacs Message-ID: Date: 31 Oct 90 22:52:42 GMT References: <7261@alvin.mcnc.org> Sender: jwz@lucid.com Organization: Lucid, Inc., Menlo Park, CA Lines: 19 In-reply-to: gbyrd@mcnc.org's message of 31 Oct 90 19:55:42 GMT In article <7261@alvin.mcnc.org> gbyrd@mcnc.org (Gregory T. Byrd) wrote: > > 1. Why does the BOOT site in the BOOT namespace believe that > it is in timezone 6 (CST), regardless of what timezone > I'm really in? My namespace is set up for EST, the band was > built in EST, time:*timezone* is bound to 5 (EST), > (time:print-current-time) prints the EST time, etc., etc. -- Is the timezone field in the namespace set to a number (5) or a string ("EST")? The Explorer time code is somewhat confused w.r.t. daylight savings time. If the namespace contains a string, like "EDT" or "EST", sometimes an extra hour will be subtracted, because it is trying to compensate for DST twice (this is from memory, so might not be totally accurate). Anyway, I had this problem and made it go away by changing the string to a number. Of course, the real solution is to lobby your politicians to do away with daylight savings time entirely. Daylight Savings Time - Just Say No. -- Jamie