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In article <860147191snz@dsl.co.uk>
	   bhk@dsl.co.uk "Brian {Hamilton Kelly}" writes:

> No that's arsy-tarsy.  You should have TZ=BST-1 (if you want to run
> throughout the year on what used to be called British Standard Time
> during that disastrous experiment in the later 60s); for some ineffable
> reason, those nice 'Merkins that came up with the concept of a TZ
> environment variable encoded it with the hours *behind* Greenwich.

Thats the poxy US centric (MS?) authors for you. My system clock is 
synchronised with MSF so follows the shifts that this country does. It 
doesn't stay on BST.

<Big snip of useful stuff that I need to digest>

> Since the dates on which such changes occur is decided by the whim of
> parliamentarians and similar lame-brainers, there will always be changes
> to the changes :-(

But if one had a proper way of saying when and by how much time shifted 
and what zone the machine is now in the politicians could bugger about 
as much as they like. Each change to the "standard" would only require a 
change to the single enviroment variable. Like the GTZ one used by Snews 
ex Demon.

Cheers
Dave.