> Attached is a trivial timezone file dumper I wrote this morning before > the benefit of coffee. When I examine the output of runs against > *_Pacific (the system's and Eric's new Canada_*) it strikes me that > the time shifts are happening at UTC time rather than the local > timezone offset. E.g., here is a sample of > /adm/timezone/Canada_Pacific: > > PST PDT > Sun Apr 26 02:00:00 GMT 1970 Sun Oct 25 01:00:00 GMT 1970 > Sun Apr 25 02:00:00 GMT 1971 Sun Oct 31 01:00:00 GMT 1971 > Sun Apr 30 02:00:00 GMT 1972 Sun Oct 29 01:00:00 GMT 1972 > Sun Apr 29 02:00:00 GMT 1973 Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 GMT 1973 > Sun Apr 28 02:00:00 GMT 1974 Sun Oct 27 01:00:00 GMT 1974 > > Should these not be taking place either seven or eight hours later > according to GMT? (I.e. 0200 PST, 0200 PDT) Am I misinterpreting the > values in the timezone files?
i'll take another look. i thought i worked this out for the us timezones, and while confusing, i thought everything was working. - erik
