Hi,

On 2015-10-07 06:37:46, mark lewis wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "it is still wrong even if it appears right":

 WV>> But you don't need it. Basically you can ask the OS what the
 WV>> localtime is and what the gmtime is. The difference is what you need
 WV>> for the TZUTC kludge. At least that is what Golded does. I haven't
 WV>> set it on either my windows or linux setup, yet the TZUTC is
 WV>> calculated perfectly!

 ml> interesting... but that's only one program and one running on a system
that
 ml> has that capability, right?

Right. Linux and Windows have that capability.

And we were talking about the TZUTC kludge in messages from Janis, who uses
BBBS on Linux. So BBBS should be able to use that. I don't know if it does, but
if it does, something goes wrong. ;)

 ml> how does one calculate TZUTC on a pure DOS machine? how about OS/2?

I don't know anything about OS/2. For DOS, the golded manual has an example:

        USETZUTC   (yes)

            Activates usage of TZUTC kludge in your messages. You should
            properly setup timezone information in your OS. For example,
            in DOS you should set environment variable TZ to something
            like this:

              TZ=MSK-3MSD,M3.5.0/02:00,M10.5.0/03:00

            This line valid for Moscow, Russia.


Bye, Wilfred.


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