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> Hello Alan. >> 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 kludg is correct. >Maybe as a temp workaround in the script file that starts BBBSD you could do a >date check. Yep, I haven't permantly set the environment yet so I guess I should find a way to do that. > And when the Daylight Saving dates are reached then the TZ and the TZUTC > variables could be changed as necessary. For me I would do it via a Bash > script. Your TZUTC kludge is also off by an hour so it may be a problem for all BBBS users. I think setting TZ=CDT+5 and TZUTC=-0500 would work for you. --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4* Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757) SEEN-BY: 57/0 153/250 220/70 226/100 267/800 280/464 317/2 393/68 633/267 SEEN-BY: 640/1384 712/620 848 770/0 1 10 100 330 340 772/0 1 500 @PATH: 153/757 250 770/1 712/848 633/267 |
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