Fw: Time Synchronisation

[Mike.Molnar at sita.int]

Thank you very much, it was the setting on the RS6000.  Whoever originally setup
our box didn't specify the BST time offset correctly.  The system was reading
TZ=GMT0BST0,M3.5.0,M10.5.0

Thanks to everyone that contributed to solving a simple and obvious error !!!!
:)

Mike

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>From "John Ryan" <jryan at kgv.edu.hk> on 6 June 2000 13:06:36
To : Mike Molnar
Subject : Fw: Time Synchronisation



This guy's got some good info.  Probably meant more for you than me.  Hong
Kong doesn't have daylight saving, so I don't have this problem.

Regards
John

----- Original Message -----
From: Mac <dmccann at nibsc.ac.uk>
To: <jryan at kgv.edu.hk>
Cc: <samba at samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: Time Synchronisation


> Hi all,
>
> >Just had another thought after I sent this.  From what you said, I am
> >assuming that the timestamp is 1 hour earlier than the real/windows time.
> >You also said the UNIX box is set to BST.  Is BST something like British
> >Standard Time?  If so, your UNIX box is the one that needs to be adjusted
> >for daylight savings.  My earlier comment of checking the output of net
time
> >may show this.  Timezones on UNIX are always a bit confusing, look at the
> >manpages about TIMEZONE.
> >
>
> This need correcting immediately.
>
> BST = British Summer Time   (NOT 'Standard' time).
>
> the normal timezone in the UK is GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, the "base"
> time for all timezones).  BST is GMT+1 and applies between the last Sunday
> in March and the last Sunday in October (01:00 GMT in both cases).  (EU
> Seventh Directive 94/21/EC defines these dates in all member states)
>
> Your timezone variable should read:-
>
> TZ=GMT0BST-1,M3.5.0/1,M10.5.0/2
>
> (the reason that there's a '2' at the end is because the time to switch
> out of the alternate timezone is based on the time in the alternate
> timezone, not the normal timezone) (the reason it says 'BST-1' is just
> the oddness of the way UNIX denotes timezones.  BST _is_ ahead of GMT).
>
>
> Hope this helps
>
>
> (BTW, is the TZ variable correct in the environment that the Samba
> Daemon runs in?)
>
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