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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
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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
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Hellmuth Michaelis    HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH    Hamburg, Europe