In message <199609181447.QAA05251@epiphore.francenet.fr>, you wrote:
# Middle European Time, Middle European Time Daylight Savings Time MET-1METDST
Just a note: The correct official English name and abbreviation of your time zone is Central European (Summer) Time (CET-1CEST) and not MET. This has been confirmed by people from the German official time lab, CET is widely used in the media, and CET/CEST is the English abbreviation that you'll find in several German-English dictionaries that I have checked. This was wrong under Unix for a long time, however the latest revision of the tz database finally got this right. You have to download the tzcode* and tzdata* files from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/. Just enter a "make zic" in case you have not already installed a recent version of the zone info compiler. With "zic europe", this program will read the database file "europe" and produce a number of compact binary files with information about various time zones. You (in France) will need the file "Europe/Paris" that zic produces from Europe and link or copy it on /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime, or /etc/localtime, or whereever on your system the time zone is specified. Every time zone is identified by the name of the largest populated area in this time zone (e.g., Paris for France). See man zic for details. Hope this helped ... Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Science grad student, Purdue University, Indiana, USA -- email: kuhn@cs.purdue.edu