Hi Wilfred,

>> @TZUTC: -0500

>>> 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?

> It says -0500, which is only right for winter-time for your timezone. Now,
> during DST it should be -0400.

No, you are wrong, Wilfred.

This is the current time right now, and I do not use UTC time on my system in
day-to-day displays:

=====cut here======
Local Time in Ithaca, NY

05:52:45 PM, Thursday 15, October 2015 EDT    24 hours
====cut here=====

As far as UTC time gos:

Offset to GMT/UTC
Standard time zone:    UTC/GMT -5 hours
(Eastern Standard Time)
Daylight saving time:  +1 hour
Current time zone offset:      UTC/GMT -4 hour
(Eastern Daylight Time)
Time zone abbreviation:        EDT
Daylight saving Time Change Dates 2015

DST started on Sunday 08 March 2015, 02:00 local standard time (EST)
DST ends on Sunday 01 November 2015, 02:00 local daylight time (EDT)

>> 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.

> You don't need to set TZ on Linux or Windows.

Exactly right :)

> If you set the correct timezone
> during system installation the OS knows what your offset to UTC is at all
>times. If software queries the OS in the right way, it can generate the correc
> TZUTC kludge. Like in this message where golded does this.

My system is set for the correct time zone :)

Take care,
Janis

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