Re: Daylight Savings System Clock

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From: Peter B. West
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 00:00

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Tony Langdon wrote:
> 
> It's 29 Oct 97  08:25,
> We'll return to nick@zeta.org.au and All's
> discussion of Daylight Savings System Clock
> 
>  ni> Look for another solution. Local time is calculated on-the-fly
>  ni> according to the rules in the active timezone file (or your environment
>  ni> variable TZ) and "nothing happens" at the time of transition.
> 
> I also reccomend that if your system runs Linux exclusively, run the
> CMOS clock on UTC and let the kernel take care of all necessary
> translations.  I've had no hitches using this method. :-)
> 
> ... James Bond rules.  00K.
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Perfect solution -

Move to Queensland!

Yours faithfully,
-- 
 __ /__   Peter B. West
   /     p.west@mailbox.uq.edu.au
  /    "Master, to whom shall we go?"

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