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From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: TZ command under sr10.3
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Date: 5 Apr 91 18:23:03 GMT
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In-Reply-To: thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM's message of 3 Apr 91 22:51:58 GMT

In article <9104032251.AA19047@pan.ssec.honeywell.com> thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM (John Thompson) writes:

   Unix, apparently, tries to figure
   out when daylight savings time goes into effect, and changes over at that point.
   The tz command does nothing for it except to get the actual zone (not the
   particular offset for daylight/standard time).

Hmmm, looks like someone has decided that Unix shouldn't try to do
this second-guessing if you're outside the US, which presumably
explains why we don't see this problem at all.  Actually not all
unixes are not this smart:  Some DECstation near here decided to
change to DST a week early (Europe changed a week later than the US
this year, I think).

- Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>
  Division of Mathematical Sciences
  The Norwegian Institute of Technology
  N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY