Hi. You already know that, again, Portugal goes back to West European Time. From the "europe" file in tzdata96d.tgz: --8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<-- 1:00 EC MET%s 1996 Mar 31 1:00u # Martin Bruckmann <martin@ua.pt> (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve # that Portugal is reverting to 0:00 by not moving its clocks this spring. # The new Prime Minister was fed up with getting up in the dark in the winter. 0:00 - "WET DST" 1996 Oct 27 1:00u 0:00 EC WET%s --8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<-- Well, only 1 1/2 weeks are separating us from March 31, and I was doing some tests (on Linux, very recent kernel - more info on request). Well, from Oct. 27 all will be OK for sure, but the rule for the intermediate period does not set the dst flag - probably because the transition to the new rule happens at the same moment as the DST one. I could not find a way to set the dst flag in rules - the only way to have the rule behave correctly is to write: 1:00 - "WET DST" 1996 Oct 27 1:00u (1:00 instead of 0:00). This way, the time is right. The dst flag is still off, and that could crack programs that use it. Do you know of a better way? Am I doing something wrong? TIA Carlo -- * Se la Strada e la sua Virtu' non fossero state messe da parte, * K * Carlo E. Prelz - fluido@marktest.pt che bisogno ci sarebbe * di parlare tanto di amore e di rettitudine? (Chuang-Tzu)