On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Mark T. Valites wrote:
> In the rev of solaris I'm using, TZ is set to US/Eastern, not EST, and
> setting 'timezone = US/Eastern' in my config file gives me correct
> timestamps.
>
> I'm not overly familiar with the intricacies of Unix timestamps, or even
> really sure this is an error - is this the fault of my OS or a small bug?
I'm not familiar with the intricacies of all the timezones either. Nor
indeed of how they work in Solaris. Checking on my Gentoo Linux box, I
see that the data for "EST" is different (and smaller) from
"US/Eastern". Looks like EST doesn't do daylight saving (at a guess).
This was my misapprehension. Sorry about that. The whole area is very
murky. I've made a note in case the book is ever revised.
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