Timezones again

[Paul Ratcliffe]

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

>Try sending your message again to support at
<pmmailos2@southsoft.com>.

Aha, then you would get something like this:

   ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
<pmmailos2@southsoft.com>  (unrecoverable error)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mailer.falcon-net.net.:
>>> RCPT To:<pmmailos2@mailer.falcon-net.net>

<<< 550 Invalid recipient <pmmailos2@mailer.falcon-net.net>
550 <pmmailos2@southsoft.com>... User unknown

   ----- Original message follows -----
<snip>

>I really don't understand why GMT is used for standard time while BST
is
>used for daylight time.

Eh? What do you mean? I don't understand this sentence at all.

>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, BST is
>daylight time zone which begins on the third Sunday in March at 1 am,

Er, *last* Sunday in March. That's what the -1 means.

>on the third Sunday in October at 2 am with a time adjustment of one

Again, last Sunday in October.

>My TZ (TZ=PST8PDT,4,1,0,3600,10,-1,0,7200,3600) works just fine.

Yes, well it would as your DST changes as the same time as the authors
- there is a bug in the function which makes it work for your (their)
particular case, but not generally.

>adjusts my system clock whenever I'm online. Paul doesn't say what
>programs work. Maybe they are more forgiving.

In the words of the late Ernie Wise (who you probably wouldn't know,
not being British), programs wot I wrote myself.

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

The 3 character mnemonics are irrelevant and are only used for display
purposes, so no it wouldn't work for me nor anybody else.