From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Oct 17 17:01:28 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:55:22 +0200 From: Thomas Binder To: mint@fishpool.com Subject: Re: [MiNT] Timezone and mint.cnf Message-ID: <20051017145522.GA8367@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de> Mail-Followup-To: Thomas Binder , mint@fishpool.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-TUD-HRZ-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TUD-HRZ-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-MailScanner-From: gryf@hrz.tu-darmstadt.de X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: gryf@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.1 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK, RCVD_IN_SORBS X-Spam-Level: * Hi! On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:51:27AM -0400, Standa Opichal wrote: > PS: Perhaps something like setenv TZ1=-240 would be just fine > equivalent of TZ='America/New_York' setting. For 'Europe/Berlin', a possible equivalent would be TZ=CET-1CEST,M3.5.0/02:00:00,M10.5.0/03:00:00 Meaning: CET: Timezone's name -1: Offset from UTC CEST: Timezone's name when daylight savings time (DST) is in effect M3.5.0/02:00:00: Start of DST is the fifth (i.e. last) sunday (0) in march (3) at 02:00:00 a.m. M10.5.0/03:00:00: End of DST is the fifth (i.e. last) sunday (0) in October (10) at 03:00:00 a.m. The format is explained more detailed in tzset(3). Ciao Thomas -- Thomas Binder (Gryf @ IRCNet) gryf@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de PGP-key available on request!