From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 3 19:52:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80DBC14BD3 for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 19:52:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA26396; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:20:28 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA04472; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:20:27 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990404132026.T2142@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:20:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: flygt@sr.se, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Timezone question References: <19990404044642.A60884@sr.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990404044642.A60884@sr.se>; from Gunnar Flygt on Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 04:46:42AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 4 April 1999 at 4:46:42 +0200, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > I have a question that has nothing to do with FreeBSD, but anyway. When > was the change to summertime in USA? It will happen today (Sunday) at between 07:00 and 13:00 UTC. You can find this information in /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/northamerica: the relevant part of the information (which is used to build the zoneinfo files installed in /etc/localtime) is: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule US 1967 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D You can also find the local time anywhere with the TZ environment variable: $ date Sun Apr 4 13:09:34 CST 1999 $ TZ=Europe/Stockholm date Sun Apr 4 05:39:43 CEST 1999 $ TZ=America/Chicago date Sat Apr 3 21:39:54 CST 1999 $ Note the imaginative time zone abbreviations, some of which I think are just plain wrong. > The reason I'm asking is that I have an application that runs on NT (I > know :-) that for some reason got hickups this night at 02.00. The only > reason I can see, is that the code maybe somewhere is relating to summer > time of some other kind than what we've got in Europe. We changed one > week ago. You need to be sure that NT has the correct time zone information. Windows 95% doesn't for our time zone (South Australia, abbreviated SA). It thinks that the time change was at the beginning of March, when in fact it was at the end of March. The version I have also seems to think that SA reaches all the way to the north of the continent, eliminating the Northern Territory: it believes that NT doesn't exist :-) Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message