How do you test today to see that the time change will occur at 2:00 AM on March 11?
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 2:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Timezone change. Little, Chris wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Fargusson.Alan >> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 11:36 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Timezone change. >> >> * >> * Note: When you run this program your timezone must be Pacific time. >> * You might need to do "env TZ=PST8PDT dst". >> */ >> >> #include <stdio.h> >> #include <time.h> >> >> /* This is the exact time of the switch in 2007 for Pacific >> time. */ #define BASE 1173607200 > > Or subtract 3600 for each zone east.... Whatever that means. Wouldn't it be preferable to compare between local time and UTC for the period in question? On Linux, it's a matter of using date -u: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date -u;date Thu Mar 1 22:38:00 UTC 2007 Fri Mar 2 07:38:00 WST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ A shell script to report the difference would be pretty trivial, and not require unlikely tools. I don't install a CD on everything. Do you? -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not reply off-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
