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Re: MST7MDT timezone broken?



Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> writes:
> On 5 Apr 2000, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> > I haven't seen it documented, but from experience, I believe the
> > daylight saving change is only done if the hardware clock is set to
> > GMT (UTC=yes in /etc/default/rcS). 
> 
> That would be a bug, if it was true.
> GMT has nothing to do with daylight saving time, and the dst correction
> needs to be done whether you are using GMT or not.

Umm, I'm afraid that's not the bug. Both my systems dual-boot to
Windows and so both have the hardware clocks set to local time and
both are running in the Mountain time zone, with DST, without a
hitch.

Gary


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