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From: kloppen@gmdzi.gmd.de (Jelske Kloppenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Daylight savings time
Message-ID: <3539@gmdzi.gmd.de>
Date: 1 Nov 90 21:05:17 GMT
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vehaag@crocus.uwaterloo.ca (Viktor Haag) writes:

>...

>Just as a curiosity, how does one set the particular system, depending on what
>time zone you work in?

>...

I found out by trial and error (mostly error). The world map in Preferences
'knows' about time zones. If you klick on Europe, Preferences shows GMT+1
but does not know the daylight saving time rule.
If you look into the folder /etc/zoneinfo you see files GMT+n. GMT+1
contains some unprintables - mostly \0 - and 'GMT+0100'. Now there is
another file MET with the definition of the rules for DST in MET.
I copied MET to GMT+1 and now my Preferences knows my daylight saving time.

j.k.

  Jelske Kloppenburg, kloppen@gmdzi.gmd.de, (++49 2241) 14-2433
  German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)