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Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:21:51 -0800
From:	Martin Rosenfeld <rosenfeldmj@ca.rr.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	SCOUG Help <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Daylight Savings Time Changes and eCS...?

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I invite my programmer friends to explain the problems created by and
the fixes for the newly changed start and stop dates for Daylight
Savings Time. I will state what I believe is true.

The bios keeps track of date and time. These settings can be changed by
command line functions (date, time). When the OS calls into a government
clock, it probably gets the time as GMT. The OS translates the time from
GMT into the local time as set in SET TZ= in config.sys. Even if we
manually change to DST at the new start date, during the next three
weeks (until we reach the old start date), whenever the time is checked
from a government clock, the OS will change it back to standard time.

If what I have stated is correct, or near correct, it seems that we
could solve the entire problem by changing the SET TZ= statement. If so,
please someone, tell me what to set it to (for PDT).

Martin Rosenfeld

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