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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Subject: Re: My Sun calendar man. went flaky - why?
- Message-ID: <14568@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 20:39:38 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.222549.29805@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1992Sep10.150841.2315@caeco.mentorg.com>
- Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com
- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >Suns Time zone stuff is broken. Date will read corectly but the CM is using GMT
- >for the time zone.
-
- In particular, it's Sun's Calendar Manager that has the broken time zone
- stuff; it uses the crufty old obsolete kernel time zone stuff rather
- than correctly using routines such as "timelocal()" or "mktime()".
-
- "tzsetup" does the best it can at setting the kernel time zone stuff to
- match the real time zone stuff, although there are limits on what it can
- do (the kernel time zone stuff, and the old routines that used it, only
- supported certain hard-coded daylight savings time rules).
-