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to: Robert Wolfe
from: Alan Ianson
date: 2019-05-17 06:56:30
subject: TZ or TZUTC environment variable

>> I've noticed that messages that originate here have a TZUTC kludge that says
>>-0800. That is correct for PST but it is PDT now so my TZUTC should be -0700.
>> How can I set BBBS to use the correct TZUTC during PDT?

> One would think that this would be an OS setting and not a setting in the BBS
> software itself.  But, I could be wrong though.

BBBS seems to get the time right ok in Pacific Standard Time. It's when we
spring ahead it doesn't change to Pacific Daylight Time. The computers
clock does change but the TZUTC: kludge doesn't.

I have found here that setting the TZ and TZUTC environments is needed, at
least in PDT. In my case I set TZ=PDT+7 and TZUTC=-0700 and now my TZUTC
kludge is correct.

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