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Re: Problems turning summertime off on British Mac

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From: Mike Connally
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 00:00
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In article <bob-2310950309280001@raspbrry.demon.co.uk>,
bob@raspbrry.demon.co.uk (Bob Kenyon) wrote:

> I went to the new Date & Time control panel and turned the "British Summer
> Time" check box off. That set the time back an hour correctly, but I
> noticed that the time zone changed from "London..." to "The time zone has
> not been specified". So I clicked the "set time zone..." button and set it
> to London. However this moved the clock forward an hour again and put a
> time zone difference of one hour in Map.
> 
> There seems to be no way I can have London as the time zone and remain on
> GMT. I even managed to set the clock on two hours one time by going into
> the "set time zone..." dialogue box twice in succession and chosing
> London. However this was not repeatable.
> 
> I fixed things by leaving Date & Time to say "The time zone has not been
> specified", setting Map to zero time difference and using Network Time to
> reset the clock.

Did you try selecting Universal (Greenwich Mean) Time in the
Network Time control panel?  It might be in a fight with the
Date & Time control panel.

Mike
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From: Mike.Connally@ecmwf.int (Mike Connally)
Subject: Re: Problems turning summertime off on British Mac
Date: 1995/10/24
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