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- Subject: Problem with timezone names
- Message-ID: <01GMUUE3KLO291VR9U@Levels.UniSA.Edu.Au>
- From: rollo.ross@levels.unisa.edu.au
- Date: 27 Jul 1992 02:07:11 +0930
- Sender: Rollo Ross <CCAJR@Levels.UniSA.Edu.Au>
- Organization: University of South Australia
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- PMDF_STARTUP (in 4.1) overrides the site's specification for
- PMDF_TIMEZONE if MULTINET_TIMEZONE is defined:
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- $ if f$logical("MULTINET_TIMEZONE") .nes. "" then -
- pmdf_define/exec/nolog pmdf_timezone "''f$logical("MULTINET_TIMEZONE")'"
-
- (Similarly for JAN_TIME_ZONE.) Unfortunately, it then makes
- unwarranted assumptions about what MULTINET_TIMEZONE means. In South
- Australia, the appropriate value for MULTINET_TIMEZONE is "CST". PMDF
- assumes that this means -0600, and constructs a Date header like this:
-
- Date: 27 Jul 1992 01:07:54 -0600 (CST)
-
- However, in this country CST means +0930. Could PMDF_STARTUP please be
- changed so that it only uses the value of MULTINET_TIMEZONE if PMDF_TIMEZONE
- is not defined? Then our carefully-chosen *unambiguous* timezone will not be
- overidden.
-
- Rollo Ross, Network Manager (CLW campuses)
-
- Computer Centre, University of South Australia, The Levels, SA 5095, Australia
- Ph +61 8 302 3158 Fax 302 3385 DTE 505282622004 Rollo.Ross@Levels.UniSA.Edu.Au
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