Re: [MiNT] MiNT and time zones problem

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

My results are similar, as I reported a couple of days ago.

In my case, EET is 2 hours ahead of GMT (EET is equal to Cairo TZ), but
date shows RTC time -2 hours GMT, instead of localtime (RTC time TZ).

Seems this needs fixing....


On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Mario Becroft wrote:

> Today I decided I would try to set up MiNT with tzinit for the proper
> timezone and daylight savings time support. I am using FreeMiNT version
> 1.15.0.
> 
> Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be working. It failed in a couple of
> different ways, which I will describe:
> 
> First, I specified the TZ variable in mint.cnf as follows:
> 
> setenv TZ NZST-12NZDT,10.1.0,3.3.0
>
> So next, I tried specifying TZ like this:
> 
> setenv TZ NZDT-13
> 
> This should make it be NZDT at 13 hours ahead of GMT without question. 
> But when I stared up, I got the following messages:
> 
> Timezone in use: NZDT
> Offset to GMT: -780 minutes
> tzinit: Tsettimeofday failed: range error/bad argument
> 
> And then, date shows me the time in GMT, even though the timezone is shows
> is NZDT. E.g.
> 
> Tue Jan 26 22:11:16 NZDT 1999
> 
> Yet 22:11:16 would be the time in GMT not NZDT!
> 
> So which ever way I do it, it doesn't work right.

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