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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!hcshh!hm From: hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: timezone in kernel configuration (question) Message-ID: <2709@hcshh.hcs.de> Date: 14 Oct 93 10:03:10 GMT References: <1993Oct13.020048.18590@sophia.smith.edu> Organization: HCS GmbH, Hamburg, Europe Lines: 22 In <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. I'm located in the Middle European Timezone and i run all my XXXBSD kernels with "-1 dst 4" in the config file with no problems ever. When i recall it correctly, the number before "dst" is the number of hours west of Greenwich (here it is one hour east = -1) and the number after the "dst" is the Daylight Saving Time 'Method' to be applied when switching (in this case) between MET and METDST. The "4" is for MET, i found this in the System Administration Manual in the original BSD 4.3 manual set. Please correct if i'm wrong! hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Hamburg, Europe