Messages in this thread |  | | From | Kevin Lentin <> | Subject | Re: Filesystems patch for Daylight Savings Time | Date | Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:48:25 +1000 (EST) |
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Mike Bremford Wrote ... > > Sorry to ruin your day... > > I believe some Australian states have a DST of 1.5 hours or .5 hours - > can't remember which (or possibly both) apply.
I don't think we have anywhere here that uses a difference of anything other than 1 hour. We do have some half timezones though. eg South Australia is at GMT+9:30 and GMT+10:30 during DST.
> Why not use the TZ things, or whatever it is that lives in > /usr/lib/zoneinfo?
Well, the timezone variables used in the patch are set from the /usr/lib/zoneinfo files. Most probably.
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