Hi,

On 2015-10-06 11:54:08, mark lewis wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "it is still wrong even if it appears right":

 WV>> Your almost right. It advertises -0500 but because of DST it should
 WV>> be -0400. ;)

 ml> that happens because in all cases i'm aware of, the operator has to flip
 ml> the switch... my main system uses an environment variable for this
 ml> information... i wrote a tool which automatically adjusts the value in the
 ml> environment variable when DST turns on and off... some systems require a
 ml> reboot for the change to take effect because of where the information is
 ml> stored in environment variables and whether they can be changed from a
 ml> shell or not... if i had to guess, i'd guess that janis simply forgot to
 ml> adjust when the switch took place last time...

On linux it's certainly automatic, and Janis uses linux...

Bye, Wilfred.


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