From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 5 4:26: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B3F714D21 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 04:25:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 481 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Apr 1999 00:54:23 -0000 Message-ID: <19990405005423.480.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 10:54:22 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Greg Lehey Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Timezone question References: <19990404044642.A60884@sr.se> <19990404132026.T2142@lemis.com> In-reply-to: <19990404132026.T2142@lemis.com> of Sun, 04 Apr 1999 13:20:26 +0930 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > $ date > Sun Apr 4 13:09:34 CST 1999 > $ TZ=Europe/Stockholm date > Sun Apr 4 05:39:43 CEST 1999 > $ TZ=America/Chicago date > Sat Apr 3 21:39:54 CST 1999 > $ > > Note the imaginative time zone abbreviations, some of which I think > are just plain wrong. It could be argued that date(1) is wrong to display those alphabetic timezones and that it ought to change over to the same numeric form that is now almost universally used in email date headers: $ gbdate Mon, 05 Apr 1999 10:47:12 +1000 $ TZ=Europe/Stockholm gbdate Mon, 05 Apr 1999 02:47:14 +0200 $ TZ=America/Chicago gbdate Sun, 04 Apr 1999 19:47:24 -0500 This tells readers, both human and automated, exactly which timezone we're talking about and avoids all the ambiguity of the alphabetic timezone names which seem to get chosen by local authorities (or pseudo-authorities) without reference to the rest of the world. > You need to be sure that NT has the correct time zone information. > Windows 95% doesn't for our time zone (South Australia, abbreviated > SA). It thinks that the time change was at the beginning of March, > when in fact it was at the end of March. The version I have also > seems to think that SA reaches all the way to the north of the > continent, eliminating the Northern Territory: it believes that NT > doesn't exist :-) I've seen reports that W95 insisted on changing to summer time in Queensland when it first came out and that Microsoft refused to consider this a bug on the grounds that Queensland had *once* used summer time. (I have never used W9x or WNT, so I have no direct knowledge about this.) -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message