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by **Ian Nea** » Tue, 28 Oct 1997 04:00:00

Minor irritation time. In this part of Indiana, we don't do
daylight savings. I checked to make sure the time hadn't changed
on my Linux box. My machine (rumpole) always reports EST
(Eastern Standard Time), thusly:

Mon Oct 27 15:59:17 EST 1997

This is RedHat 4.2 (kernel 2.0.30) on a 486

I have an account on the departmental machine, running
SunOS Release 4.1.3_U1 that is similarly configured:

/home/neath>date
Mon Oct 27 16:00:21 EST 1997

When I finger my machine, it is reported in EDT but with
EST time:

[rumpole]
Login: ian Name: Ian Neath
Directory: /home/ian Shell: /bin/bash
On since Mon Oct 27 15:45 (EDT) on ttyp0 from dilbert
25 seconds idle
No mail.
No Plan.

Anybody know where daylight savings time label is creaping
in?
--
Ian Neath | There are four kinds of people in this world:

by **Todd Knar** » Wed, 29 Oct 1997 04:00:00

> Anybody know where daylight savings time label is creaping
> in?

Check your TZ environment variable. It's probably set to EST5EDT or
US/Eastern. In my /usr/lib/zoneinfo directory I have a a plain EST
zone file which should disable DST. There are also some zone files in
the US subdirectory, so you could set TZ to US/Eastern, US/East-Indiana
or US/Indiana-Starke to get better results. The names might give you
some clue which applies to you, or I believe there's a zone file
decoder around somewhere.

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Daylight time (label) but standard time (time)

Daylight time (label) but standard time (time)

Daylight time (label) but standard time (time)