FYI Begin forwarded message: Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp.hpux From: hmc@cee.hw.ac.uk (Hugh Conner) Subject: Re: Fault in tztab on HP-UX Message-Id: <DGwHBL.DI9@cee.hw.ac.uk> Sender: news@cee.hw.ac.uk (News Administrator) Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland References: <308A28E6.186D@ug.eds.com> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 11:59:45 GMT In article <308A28E6.186D@ug.eds.com>, Daniel Dignam <daniel@ug.eds.com> writes:

There's a fault in the tztab entry for GMT0BST in 9.05, the clocks went back today (the 22nd), but date under HP-UX is still stuck at BST :-(. The relevant entry from tztab is as follows

# Greenwich Mean Time, British Summer Time GMT0BST 0 3 25-31 3 1983-1984 0 BST-1 0 3 23-29 3 1985-1990 0 BST-1 0 3 25-31 3 1991-2038 0 BST-1 0 1 25-31 10 1983-1985 0 GMT0 0 1 23-29 10 1986-2038 0 GMT0

As I understand this table it should read

0 1 22-29 10 1986-2038 0 GMT0

Anways, I guess the technology will sort itself out tomorrow, I wonder how much breaks because of this ?

The problem is that they decided to change the clocks back a week earlier than normal this year, thus screwing up all Unix systems time tables, not just HPs. I believe that next year it will be changed again so that Britain changes over at the same time as the rest of Europe, so you'll have to edit the tztab all over again. -- Hugh M. Conner hmc@cee.hw.ac.uk "Wot? No signature!"