Re: BUG? TZ variable correct but ...

Stephen A. Carter (scarter@gol.com)
Fri, 06 Dec 1996 22:32:34 +0900

In article <vVkpyMzgEKqP092yn@ibm.net>, Robin Klitscher wrote:
>After a lot of plagiarism and mucking about and, quite honestly, never
>really understanding what I was doing, the following seems to work.
>I means that the time zone is set for NZ, 12 hours standard time east
>of Greenwich, changing to summer time in September and back to standard
>time in March, in each case on the Sunday (Day 0) of the fourth week of
>the respective month, at 1am in the first case and at 2:15am in the
>second (I think):
>
>SET TZ=NZT-12NZD,M9.4.0/1:00,M3.4.0/2:15

Wow.

Japan, praise be, has no daylight savings time or summer time or
whatever you choose to call it.

Kevin, this line in Config.Sys has always worked fine for me:

SET TZ=JST-9

HTH.

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