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From: robert@pvab.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How is the time zone set in 4.2 BSD?
Message-ID: <198@pvab.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 04:12:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: pvab.198
Posted: Thu Jun 11 04:12:42 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jun-87 20:46:23 EDT
References: <770@thumper.UUCP> <625@pdp.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Reply-To: robert@pvab.UUCP (Robert Claeson)
Distribution: world
Organization: Statskonsult Programvaruhuset AB, Sweden
Lines: 24
Keywords: daylight savings time
Summary: Optional number following 'dst'

In article <625@pdp.cs.OHIOU.EDU> galen@pdp.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Douglas Wade Needham) writes:

>The timezone is set in the system configuration files as a global parameter.
>If you read in 'Building Systems with Config', found in volume 2c of your 
>UNIX Programmer's Manual, there is a field labled 'timezone'.  The fact
>that your system is using Pacific time indicates that your kernal was either
>never changed from a generic system, or the timezone was overlooked.  You 
>will need to change the value from 8 (Pacific) to 5, 6, or 7 (Eastern, 
>Central, or Mountain) or something else matching your particular zone.
>The dst indicates that you use daylight savings time, and a number following
							   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>it (optional) indicates when the switch occurs.
 ^^            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

How should this number be expressed? And when does the switch occur
if I leave it out?

I have a Sun, and I can't find any reference to this in the manuals (we're
running SunOS 2.0) even though I've seen others using this.

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