Howdy all, Ethan Dicks here. I'm a computer tech at McMurdo Station who has been sleuthing why my clock on my OpenWin desktop didn't display the correct local time this morning (N.Z. just changed to DST about 20 hours ago), and dug up this mailing list from the docs in the zoneinfo source. It appears as if I've just missed most of the fun of verifying Antarctic time, but I did notice that Palmer Station is not represented in the recently released tables... I am researching the history of Palmer's timezone; for the past few years (I don't know how many yet), it keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line. Palmer is located at 64.8S by 64.1W, i.e., AQ -6448-6406 Antarctica/Palmer Palmer Station, Anvers Island A footnote on the McMurdo/South Pole timezone issue - our wall clocks and wristwatches are set to N.Z. time (with DST, when appropriate). Our UNIX machines are set to UTC to simplify timestamps on collected data. Desktop machines (Macs and PCs) are set to wall time, however. Please include me on this list for the time being. For the summer season at least, I'm taking care of a bunch of UNIX machines and would like the xclocks to display the correct local time. -ethan -- Ethan Dicks erd@infinet.com |"Getting up, that is a problem. I've always had McMurdo Station, Antarctica | a hard time getting up when it's dark outside." erd@csec.mcmurdo.gov |"But in space, it's always dark." http://www.infinet.com/~erd/ |"I know...I know" - Sinclair & Ivanova, Babylon 5