TZ... Again (OT)

[Trevor Smith]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:25:42 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:

>ARRGG!! Sorry! I don't know what I was thinking.  Of course you 
>are correct, and I am completely wrong, the time command etc 
>obviously does (and must) set the RTC!!!!
>
>I hope you all accept my grovelling apologies!  I guess I'm 
>just in argumentative mode this week!

Ah, it's nice to be right once in a while. :-)

>However, OS/2 really, really doesn't change the clock across
>daylight savings time changes, honest - but I would not
>expect you to beleive me now!!

You are completely correct about this, of course. This is one of the
reasons why OS/2 *SHOULD* have a TZ environment variable built in and
why it should expect the RTC to run in UT.

Unfortunately, the folks who built OS/2 thought copying DOS was "good
enough". Instead they should have copied Unix.


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