Re: [sheflug] Help with timezones (values of TZ) andsummer (daylight savings) time.

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 14:10 +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
> but I wanted to modify it for the summer.  I thought the code for east
> coast daylight savings time was EDT, but that doesn't work:
> 
> $ date
> Tue Apr 18 14:07:18 BST 2006
> 
> $ TZ=EST date
> Tue Apr 18 08:07:22 EST 2006
> 
> $ TZ=EDT date
> Tue Apr 18 13:07:26 EDT 2006

Looks like you're a loser at the Unix game:

alex [at] ubuntu ~ $ TZ=America/New_York date
Tue Apr 18 09:26:13 EDT 2006
alex [at] ubuntu ~ $ TZ=EDT date
Tue Apr 18 13:26:17 EDT 2006

This is a Dapper machine.

I can't explain it, except to say that I was under the impression that
EDT was something recently introduced and, er, maybe it doesn't work
well yet :o/

Bug filing is clearly required :o)

Alex.


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