06 Oct 15 22:25, you wrote to me:

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

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

really? linux creates and maintains the TZUTC environment variable?? that's
quite some news to me and many others!

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... Forbidden fruit is responsible for many a bad jam.
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