Re: TZ autochanging question

[q-funk@megacom.net (Martin-Eric Racine)]

 >At 6:47 Uhr +0200 02.04.1998, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
 >>Kellis and I just noticed today that MiNT's internal time is
 >>1 hour earlier than our RTC.  After a while, it occured to us
 >>that next weekend is when we change the time.
 >>
 >>Two questions:
 >>
 >>1) Why did it change today instead of next saturday?
 >
 >Because you live in the wrong timezone:-)
 >In Germany we already have Summertime (the rain is warm) since last sunday.
 >Maybe your TZ information is wrong.

Nope. my TZ info is correct. I live in EST5EDT and I've defined it
correctly everywhere.

 >>2) Why weren't the GEMDOS time and RTC clock updated too?
 >
 >I don't know if GEMDOS knows about timezones. 

GEMDOS doesn't but the auto-daytaime thing in MiNT should know
better and update the RTC chip to match the timechange.

 >The MintLib is responsible for this.
 >The RTC should always be set to UTC.

Thanks for the info. :)


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