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 Message 2256 
 Jeff Smith to Alan Ianson 
 TZ or TZUTC environment variable 
 17 May 19 08:47:24 
 
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TZUTC: -0600
CHARSET: PC-8
Hello Alan.

> BBBS seems to get the time right ok in Pacific Standard Time. It's when we
> spring ahead it doesn't change to Pacific Daylight Time. The computers clock
> does change but the TZUTC: kludge doesn't. I have found here that setting the
> TZ and TZUTC environments is needed, at least in PDT. In my case I set 
> TZ=PDT+7 and TZUTC=-0700 and now my TZUTC kludg is correct.

Maybe as a temp workaround in the script file that starts BBBSD you could do a
date check. And when the Daylight Saving dates are reached then the TZ and the
TZUTC variables could be changed as necessary. For me I would do it via a Bash
script.

Jeff



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