Hi Wilfred,

I just saw this thread and figured I'd comment :)

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

>> interesting... but that's only one program and one running on a system
> that
>> 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, bu
> if it does, something goes wrong. ;)

AFAICS, BBBS is handling it just fine... do you see something differently
there from this system?

I don't do anything with the TZ here in the script that runs nodes 1-3 of bbbs
(1 phone modem, 2 & 3 are dialout nodes) , but the system time here is correct
for where I live:

~$ date
   Thu Oct 15 15:38:41 EDT 2015

I expect BBBS would grab that, but I can check with Kim about it.  I mean I can
put a TZ=??? statement in the 3 nodes that I run for dialout to other nodes,
but that won't affect nodes that bbbs spawns for incoming calls. I can also
check what I have in the config for the other nodes (4-15), but nothing would
have changed with that since I set them up.

Take care,
Janis

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