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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: timezone in kernel configuration (question) Date: 13 Oct 1993 10:47:15 +0100 Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <29gir3$ks9@Germany.EU.net> References: <1993Oct13.020048.18590@sophia.smith.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net In article <1993Oct13.020048.18590@sophia.smith.edu>, jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber) writes: |> 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. The date calculation seems to be a load of crap. If you tell your config that you are running UTC (aka GMT) and that you do not use DST on your clock and you do a `date -u' you get a result that is off the HW clock by one hour. Grumble, Bernard