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

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 14:28 +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
> 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/

Ok, I can explain it now - the TZ variable takes a slightly complicated
formatting:

alex [at] ubuntu ~ $ TZ=GMT0BST date
Tue Apr 18 14:42:58 BST 2006

alex [at] ubuntu ~ $ TZ=EST date
Tue Apr 18 08:43:02 EST 2006

alex [at] ubuntu ~ $ TZ=EST5EDT date
Tue Apr 18 09:43:05 EDT 2006

No, I don't know why, but daylight savings time always has to be
specified as a separate name. Why it needs the hours difference from UTC
I don't know either.

Cheers,

Alex.


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