[Discussion] New Daylight Savings Time Changes [Was: ECS- Eliminate excess Printers]

[David Azarewicz]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:02:31 -0500 (EST), Carl Gehr wrote:

>On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:33:35 -0800 (PST), Jon Harrison wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:42:27 -0500 (EST), Carl Gehr wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>I believe the expanded SET TZ that you show is not correct.
>>
>>Carl:
>>
>>I agree with you, that is why I posted the comment.
>>
>>jon
>
>Sorry, I thought you had posted:
>>SET TZ=PST8PDT,4,1,0,7200,10,-1,0,7200,3600
>
>I was reacting to the '...4,1,...' which is not correct.
>It should be:         '...3,2,...'
>
>The rest was just background.


The original issue was that anything other than the standard 
TZ=PST8PDT (or whatever time zone you are in) breaks zip. It doesn't 
really matter what is added on the end, correct or incorrect, it still 
breaks zip (and probably other unix ports).

I have always wondered why everyone is making such a fuss about the 
system changing the time by itself.  I have always sync'd my system to 
NIST and let the government tell me what time it is, including whether 
it is daylight time or not.  It has worked for me for years and I don't ever 
have to think about it.  Maybe in other countries it works differently, but 
in the US it has always worked for me.

David

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