TZ... Again

[Dave Liquorice]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:08:18 +0000 (GMT), Simon Bowring wrote:

> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:08:18 +0000 (GMT)
> X-Mailer: PMMail 2.10.1999 for OS/2 Warp 4.00
<snip>
> set TZ=gmt0bst,3,-1,0,7200,10,-1,0,10800,3600

And I see that it doesn't work...

I expect it will after this coming Sunday (2nd April) though. Just like 
it did last year. Digging through my Sent folder I find that this failed 
last spring as well, never did get round to reporting it as a bug. 

Who takes bug reports now? Additional info: It appears that it is only a 
problem in the UK, possibly the zero offset for "winter" time confuses 
things.

> Daylight saving time starts at 2:00 on the last Sunday of March and 
> ends at 2:00 on the last Sunday of October (EC standard).  Time 
> changes by one hour in daylight saving time:
>
> SET TZ=gmt0bst,3,-1,0,7200,10,-1,0,10800,3600
                 March  
                   Last
                      Sunday
                        0200
                             October
                                Last
                                   Sunday
                                     0300
                                           1 hour change    
									
	 
  SET TZ=GMT0BST,3,-1,0,3600,10,-1,0,7200,3600

Is what I have ie BST starts at 0100 ("time" leaps from 0100 to 0200) 
and ends at 0200 ("time" leaps from 0200 back to 0100). I think this is 
correct the 0300 bit in yours sounds decidedly iffy...

Cheers
Dave.