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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!news.smith.edu!sophia.smith.edu!jfieber From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber) Subject: timezone in kernel configuration (question) Message-ID: <1993Oct13.020048.18590@sophia.smith.edu> Sender: root@sophia.smith.edu (Operator) Nntp-Posting-Host: sophia.smith.edu Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1993 02:00:48 GMT Lines: 12 In the kernel configuration, I gather the first number after "timezone" indicates what timezone the hardware clock is set to. What exactly does "dst 1" do though? In poking around I found it noted that timezone information, and thus I would assume daylight savings information, is no longer kept in the kernel. (I'm speaking from the context of FreeBSD if that matters) -john -- == John Fieber ================================== Young Science Library == == jfieber@sophia.smith.edu ======= Smith College, Northampton MA 01063 ==