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From: rvdp@cs.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: SCO 3.2.2 timezone bug
Message-ID: <9610@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 9 Apr 91 19:51:17 GMT
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Per Gregers Bilse wrote to me:

| There's a bug (surprise ... ) in the program (/etc/tz) which constructs
| the TZ variable.  The correct syntax requires a semicolon, not a comma,
| after the timezone names, ie
| 
|   CET-1CEST;M3.5,M9.5
| 
| and not
| 
|   CET-1CEST,M3.5,M9.5
| 
| The line to fix in /etz/tz is (around) 392, and looks like this:
| 
|         tz="\"$stname$sthours${dst:+$smname$smhours;$sdate,$edate}\""
| 						   ^
| I have no news posting access ... feel free to post this.
| 
| 	Best Wishes
| 	per (aka pdev, root, mmdf, etc)

I changed the ,'s to ;'s and it works now (although I can't use a
Daylight Saving Time Timezonename of 'MET DST'. So I use METDST).


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	Ronald van der Pol
	rvdp@cs.vu.nl (SunOS)
	rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl (SCO 3.2.2)

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	Ronald van der Pol    <rvdp@cs.vu.nl>