Yep, that's exactly it. Mental note, test EU DST changes by setting UTC. 0] Thanks a lot all! I look forward to bugging you all further! Dafydd Dafydd Rhys-Jones | Software Test Engineer F5 Networks P 206.272.5555 F 206.272.5556 www.f5.com D 206.272.6280 M 206.335.1096 -----Original Message----- From: Peter Ilieve [mailto:peter@aldie.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 8:43 AM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: EU BST-->GMT issue
Is there a difference between the way EU runs vs how the US DST runs (revision, wise, not date and time wise). I ask this only because my US DST tests all worked appropriately, along with outlying areas (Virgin Islands, Guam, America Samoa, etc), and the EU one is the only one that acted in this behavior.
The EU rule in the tz data is unusual in specifying UTC transition times. This reflects the way the European Union politicians legislated. They don't much care which timezone a member state is in (and the EU is too big east to west all to be in one) but they do insist that all member states change their clocks, and all at the same time. If you have been used to working with the US rules, which specify wall clock times for the transitions, then this may be what has caused problems with your tests. Peter Ilieve peter@aldie.co.uk