> i tried to send this off-list, but your zone has no mx record.
> sorry to the rest of the list for spam.
And I tried a direct reply, but your MTA is convinced orthanc.ca has
no MX record. Which is odd since it most most certainly does. I've
noticed ndb/dns has been acting oddly lately, though. For the last
couple of months my CPU server has been complaining that
ftp.rfc-editor.org has a malformed IP address while my terminal has no
issue with it. It hasn't been annoying enough to track down since I
have a workaround, but something weirde is going on here ...
> anyway, lyndon could you check the timezones in
> /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/timezone/tz/Canada_*
> to make sure i haven't made any silly mistakes?
Attached is a trivial timezone file dumper I wrote this morning before
the benefit of coffee. When I examine the output of runs against
*_Pacific (the system's and Eric's new Canada_*) it strikes me that
the time shifts are happening at UTC time rather than the local
timezone offset. E.g., here is a sample of
/adm/timezone/Canada_Pacific:
PST PDT
Sun Apr 26 02:00:00 GMT 1970 Sun Oct 25 01:00:00 GMT 1970
Sun Apr 25 02:00:00 GMT 1971 Sun Oct 31 01:00:00 GMT 1971
Sun Apr 30 02:00:00 GMT 1972 Sun Oct 29 01:00:00 GMT 1972
Sun Apr 29 02:00:00 GMT 1973 Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 GMT 1973
Sun Apr 28 02:00:00 GMT 1974 Sun Oct 27 01:00:00 GMT 1974
Should these not be taking place either seven or eight hours later
according to GMT? (I.e. 0200 PST, 0200 PDT) Am I misinterpreting the
values in the timezone files?
--lyndon
#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>
#include <stdio.h>
struct tz {
int offset;
char zone[5];
};
static char EPARSE[] = "parse error";
void main (int argc, char **argv)
{
struct tz tz[2];
Tm *t;
long i[2];
int rc;
char *s;
rc = scanf("%s %d %s %d", &tz[0].zone, &tz[0].offset,
&tz[1].zone, &tz[1].offset);
if (rc == EOF || rc != 4) {
exits(EPARSE);
}
printf("%28s\t%28s\n", tz[0].zone, tz[1].zone);
for (;;) {
rc = scanf("%ld %ld", &i[0], &i[1]);
if (rc == EOF) {
exits(0);
}
if (rc != 2) {
exits(EPARSE);
}
t = gmtime(i[0]);
s = asctime(t);
s[28] = '\0';
printf("%s\t", s);
t = gmtime(i[1]);
s = asctime(t);
s[28] = '\0';
printf("%s\n", s);
}
exits(0);
}
