Timezones again

[Dave Liquorice]

On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 21:36:53 -0700, Kris Sorem Sr wrote:

>> Donno I mailed support (pmmail@southsoft.com) with this exact same
>> problem on the 29th March but have yet to have any response. B-(
>
> Try sending your message again to support at pmmailos2@southsoft.com.

Well I sent it to the same address that I sent another report about
incorrect handling of a Date: line sans seconds and got a response for
that. It's also the address listed under support in the help system...

> I really don't understand why GMT is used for standard time while BST
> is used for daylight time. Paul's
> TZ=GMT0BST,3,-1,0,3600,10,-1,0,7200,3600 means GMT is standard time
> zone, there is no offset from CUT,

Correct The UK uses GMT during the winter and as we "invented" time we
have no offset from UTC during the winter.

> BST is daylight time zone which begins on the third Sunday in March at
> 1 am, ends on the third Sunday in October at 2 am with a time
> adjustment of one hour.

Make that the last sunday of each month not the third and again correct.

> TZ=BST0BDT,3,-1,0,3600,10,-1,0,7200,3600 would work for Paul.

WTF is BDT? And during the winter we are not on BST (British SUMMER
Time) but GMT,

I suspect PMMail is having a problem with zero or more likely working
out the last sunday of the month.

Cheers
Dave.