Time Zone trouble...

n paul at unisoft.UUCP
Sat Apr 9 06:07:53 AEST 1988


In article <18918 at think.UUCP> whitney at think.UUCP (David Whitney) writes:
>A seperate problem I have is this: now that we are running on Daylight Savings,
>A/ux reports the time as one hour later than what the Mac says the time is.
>In order for me to have A/ux tell me accurately that it is 10 am, I must
>set the mac to 9 am. Why is this?


The problem here is that Unix stores it time in GMT regardless of the local
time - EDT5EST etc just tell the time printing software how to display it.
The MacOS stores its internal time as local time so you have to change it
when DST comes along - there is a magic number which you can set in SASH
to set the difference between local time and GMT - of course this changes when
DST comes in .....


	Paul

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