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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
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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