Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: The switch to daylight savings time Message-ID: Keywords: CMOS, date, DST, setclock, time, TZ, Xenix 3.0 Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <9@phlpa.UUCP> <1991Apr10.114836.10816@convex.com> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 15:57:29 GMT In article <1991Apr10.114836.10816@convex.com> andy@piziali.lonestar.org (Andy Piziali) writes: > I am running IBM Xenix 1.0, a Microsoft Xenix 3.0 derivative, We're running Xenix 3.5 here. > My question is: are the two dates which delimit the period of the year DST is > in effect hard coded into the kernel and could these dates have differed from > the current dates at the time this Xenix was written? Yes, and yes. Every year, twice a year, we change TZ from CST6CDT to CDT5, and reboot the computers (or just log everyone out and restart cron). -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"