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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
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Subject: Re: Date to switch from standard time to daylight savings time
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Date: 26 May 89 19:45:48 GMT
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	"The other thing you can do is temporarily change the
	/etc/TIMEZONE file (or whereever you set TZ) such that it
	accurately shows the time during the time it should change and
	the time it actually does change."

But when May comes and your software agrees that it's time for daylight
savings time, any creation/modification/access dates from the affected
period that ls displays will be off by an hour.  And there are similar
problems, like the output from "who" and accounting programs.  Maybe
not important, but worth keeping in mind.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!orca!frip!andrew)      [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]