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In article <7261@alvin.mcnc.org> gbyrd@mcnc.org (Gregory T. Byrd) wrote:
> 
> 1. Why does the BOOT site in the BOOT namespace believe that
>    it is in timezone 6 (CST), regardless of what timezone
>    I'm really in?  My namespace is set up for EST, the band was
>    built in EST, time:*timezone* is bound to 5 (EST), 
>    (time:print-current-time) prints the EST time, etc., etc. --

Is the timezone field in the namespace set to a number (5) or a string
("EST")?  The Explorer time code is somewhat confused w.r.t.  daylight savings
time.  If the namespace contains a string, like "EDT" or "EST", sometimes an
extra hour will be subtracted, because it is trying to compensate for DST
twice (this is from memory, so might not be totally accurate).  Anyway, I had
this problem and made it go away by changing the string to a number.

Of course, the real solution is to lobby your politicians to do away with
daylight savings time entirely.  Daylight Savings Time - Just Say No.

		-- Jamie