On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:03:14PM -0600, William Astle wrote: > > > > Question for your Linux cert, what does the following mean? > > "MET-1MEST-2,M3.3.0,M10.5.0" > > And this matters for anyone in North America how? Or, for that matter, > to anyone using a sane distro that has a proper timezone database? > (Looks like a time zone spec with DST being 1 hour back of UTC and > standard time being 2 hours back of UTC. I'd have to look up how to > parse the other latter two parts of the tuple but they would be > specifying when DST starts and ends.) >
Absolutely correct. The first bit define time difference from UTC for 'summer' and 'winter' time, the second bit defines when 'summer' starts and the third when it finished. This example used 'M3.3.0' which means Month 3, week 3, day 0 (Sunday). The 'week 5' in the last part means last week in month. This example is for Germany. Just thought this was really cool way of defining time when I saw it, hence the test question, Simon. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
