From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 3 4:22:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC6C37B940 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 04:22:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bart.lateur@skynet.be) Received: from dialup267.gent.skynet.be (dialup267.gent.skynet.be [195.238.17.11]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with SMTP id B60ED184FF for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:22:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dayligh Saving Time in Europe Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 11:20:03 GMT Organization: MediaMind Message-ID: <38e97d9a.8852097@relay.skynet.be> References: <38ec6625.2846652@relay.skynet.be> <20000403125003.A10889@student.csd.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20000403125003.A10889@student.csd.uu.se> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/16.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:50:04 +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: >You actually *do* want CEST. "S" stands for Summer, not Standard. >The timezones for Belgium are the same as here in Sweden. >CET (Central European Time) during the winter and CEST (Central European >Summer Time) during summer. Oh. Damned. Thanks for clearing that up. I'll have to check if gmtime returns the correct answer (2 hours difference?). So how can I choose plain "CET"? Because every year again, there are political debates about abandoning this "barbaric" Daylight Saving Time thing altogether. If this happens, is FreeBSD 3.4 ready for it? -- Bart. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message