Re: Help with timezone
From: Andrew Hodgson (Andrew@hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 19:35:00 +0100
In article <BYFX3ch4wyyT088yn@ching.apana.org.au>,
jtucker@ching.apana.org.au (Jim Tucker) wrote:
>"Holger Klang" <hklang@gmx.de> said:
>>I'm using the variable 'SET TZ=GMT-2'. You must place a "-" or "+" in
>>front of the numer of the Time-offset. If we have no daylight savingtime,
>>I use the variable 'SET TZ=GMT-1'.
>
>>Note: if you are living western from Greenwich, your entry in the
>>"tz"-Variable must have a "+"-Character in front of the timesetoff.
>
>Holger is right. It is ass (arse) backwards. I have 'SET TZ=GMT-09:30'
>but in the header says +0930. In the real world both Holger and I are
>ahead of GMT so "+" would appear correct but it is not how you use it in
>AUTOEXEC. The other little problem I had to solve was our half-hour time
>thing. It needs a colon. Only Adelaide, Bombay, and a few other obscure
>places need worry about this.
>
>If you are using AUTOEXEC you will have to manually change it when you
>go on and off daylight time. It ain't automatic. Nobody knows when. Eg:
>Indiana and Arizona do not have daylight time. Nor do some Australian
>states and those that do can change at different times of the year.
>There are plans to move the change forward next year two months earlier
>because of the Olympic games. Some states will and some won't.
>
>Daylight time is a moveable feast -- like Easter. It seems to depend on
>the phase of the moon and the whim of politicians.
>
>-----
>jimbo
>
Thanks.
I use set tz=gmt0bst for this, I don't think from this line though that it could
be automatically updated to accomodate bst time, but most of us just use the gmt
time. Is there a way of doing it other than autoexec.bat??
--
Sincerely,
Andrew.
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