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From: lee@west44.UUCP (Lee McLoughlin)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: BST
Message-ID: <69@west44.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Aug-83 22:53:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 15 22:53:17 1983
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The way around the timezone problem seems to be to fix up the getdate routine.
Take getdate.y and look for "Bering" which you'll see is "bst" then make it look
like:
---------------------------------------------------------
#ifdef BERING
	{"bst", ZONE, 11 HRS},		/* Bering */
	{"b.s.t.", ZONE, 11 HRS},
	{"bdt", DAYZONE, 11 HRS},
	{"b.d.t.", DAYZONE, 11 HRS},
#else
	{"bst", DAYZONE, 0 HRS},	/* British Summer Time */
	{"b.s.t.", DAYZONE, 0 HRS},
#endif
---------------------------------------------------------
"bst" and "b.s.t" are for Bering Standard Time and "bdt" and "b.d.t" for the
daylight saving versions. By saying, in the #else branch, that its a DAYZONE
of 0 HRS getdate will say that it 0 hours from GMT (it is GMT) but its the
daylight version which will cause it to go back an hour.
 (Argue about the loss of "bdt" amongst yourselves.)
  Incidentally one of the JNT's (Joint Networks Team) ``mods'' to the ARPA
mail format for the UK was to say that BST meant British Summer Time, so
their version isn't a *TOTAL* waste of time (UK poke-in-ribs).