lee@west44.UUCP (Lee McLoughlin) (08/16/83)
The way around the timezone problem seems to be to fix up the getdate routine.
Take getdate.y and look for "Bering" which you'll see is "bst" then make it look
like:
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#ifdef BERING
{"bst", ZONE, 11 HRS}, /* Bering */
{"b.s.t.", ZONE, 11 HRS},
{"bdt", DAYZONE, 11 HRS},
{"b.d.t.", DAYZONE, 11 HRS},
#else
{"bst", DAYZONE, 0 HRS}, /* British Summer Time */
{"b.s.t.", DAYZONE, 0 HRS},
#endif
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"bst" and "b.s.t" are for Bering Standard Time and "bdt" and "b.d.t" for the
daylight saving versions. By saying, in the #else branch, that its a DAYZONE
of 0 HRS getdate will say that it 0 hours from GMT (it is GMT) but its the
daylight version which will cause it to go back an hour.
(Argue about the loss of "bdt" amongst yourselves.)
Incidentally one of the JNT's (Joint Networks Team) ``mods'' to the ARPA
mail format for the UK was to say that BST meant British Summer Time, so
their version isn't a *TOTAL* waste of time (UK poke-in-ribs).teus@mcvax.UUCP (Teus Hagen) (08/25/83)
Sorry BST stands for Belgium Summer Time. If you make the change in
getdate.y please allow the following items as well:
GST (German Summer Time), LST (Luxembourg Summer Time),
EST (Eireland Summer Time), DST (Danmark Summer Time),
IST (Italian Summer Time) and HST (Holland Summer Time).
All these are standards according to the national bureaus.
The European standard is WET (West European Time), MET (Middle European Time)
and EET (East European Time). Where WET is the same as GMT. No daylight saving
time is included here. Perhaps WET DST (West European Time Daylight Saving
Time) is ok, if XST was not wired into the news sources.
And Bering wil remain as cold as it was befor.
If the format for news is RFC822, please stick to it. If ARPA does not take
over the European standards we have to follow the alphabetic identification,
even if Europe is modernized with daylight saving times now a days.
--
Teus Hagen Math. Centrum, Amsterdam, {philabs,decvax}!mcvax!teus.cunningh@noscvax.UUCP (09/02/83)
Besides standing for Holland Standard Time, HST also stands for
Hawaiian Standard Time. Seems as if the 'standard' time zone
abbreviations were just not chosen to be unambiguous. There is no
daylight savings time in Hawaii, incidently, thus no designated
abbreviation for it. .... Bob C.
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