Re: thanks, and one more

Torkil Zachariassen (torkill@login.dknet.dk)
Sun, 21 Apr 1996 00:43:32 +0200

On Sun, 14 Apr 1996 15:22:02 +0200,
BenGrimm@xs4all.nl (Ben C. O. Grimm - Praesidium Libertatis NL -) wrote
in list.yarn:
>In article <JEIcxAdHY4xK088yn@Stud-Mailer.Uni-Marburg.De>, you wrote:
>> But I still have one more question. -- What does "daylight safing-time"
>> mean? -- I simply don't understand the english term. So I can not add
>> the three requested characters to my environment-variable "tz".
>
>As a fellow-European (wow ..) I can tell you that your settings
>in autoexec should read "set TZ=MET-1DST". Someone else already
>explained the concept of DST. Hope this helps.
>

Here is the setting for central Europe including DK, NL and DE:

set TZ=CET-1DST,M3.5.0/2:00,M10.5.0/3:00

Explanation follows:

CET = Central European Time
-1 = one hour to the East of the Greenwich meridian,
about the Berlin time accepted by most Western
countries on the continent.
DST = Americanese for "Daylight Saving Time"
M3 = Starts in the month of March
5 = at the last day number 0
0 = Sunday
2:00 = start time of the addition
M10 = Ending in the month of October (This is a
difference from 1995!)
5.0 = again, on the fifth Sunday...
3:00 = at 3 in the morning, we return to CET-1.

[Exerpt from Kevins Martin's Hands On page about timezone setting:
http://www.nic.com/~cannon/tz.html. Look there for more on TZ]

I use it myself and it seems to work correctly.

Torkil

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