From: Bob Vickers (bobv@cs.rhul.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2003 - 09:44:19 EST
Thanks to Peter Stern for a succinct and rapid answer:
> I was a beta tester for Tru64 Unix v4.0 and back in 1996 I opened a qar
> reporting this problem. The bad news is that it was never fixed. The
> good news is that it will fix itself on Sunday when the US goes to DST
> too. Something inside CDE has apparently decided that there is only one
> set of time zone rules.
I would also add that I tried a further experiment of setting my timezone
to the custom one of GMT+1. This resulted in messages arriving 2 hours
late! Also it forgets the customised timezone when you close dtcm.
Original message:
>
> Last Sunday the clocks went forward in most parts of Europe. However, on
> our system dtcm does not seem to have noticed and is sending appointment
> reminders an hour late. This applies both to appointments set up now and
> appointments set up last week. There was a reboot yesterday (for the
> libc security fixes) so all processes have been restarted.
>
> Some details:
>
> Tru64 4.0G
> /etc/svid3_tz contains :GB-Eire/
> dtcm correctly reports the timezone is GMT0BST
> Other commands (e.g. 'date' and 'ls') correctly report time as BST
> 'date -u' reports correct UTC time
> There are no TZ-related environment variables.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Any clues for fixing it?
>
> Many thanks,
> Bob
> ==============================================================
> Bob Vickers R.Vickers@cs.rhul.ac.uk
> Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
> WWW: http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/bobv
> Phone: +44 1784 443691
>
>
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