Thank you very much, it was the setting on the RS6000. Whoever originally setup
our box didn't specify the BST time offset correctly. The system was
reading
TZ=GMT0BST0,M3.5.0,M10.5.0
Thanks to everyone that contributed to solving a simple and obvious error !!!!
:)
Mike
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>From "John Ryan" <jryan@kgv.edu.hk> on 6 June 2000 13:06:36
To : Mike Molnar
Subject : Fw: Time Synchronisation
This guy's got some good info. Probably meant more for you than me. Hong
Kong doesn't have daylight saving, so I don't have this problem.
Regards
John
----- Original Message -----
From: Mac <dmccann@nibsc.ac.uk>
To: <jryan@kgv.edu.hk>
Cc: <samba@samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: Time Synchronisation
> Hi all,
>
> >Just had another thought after I sent this. From what you said, I am
> >assuming that the timestamp is 1 hour earlier than the real/windows
time.
> >You also said the UNIX box is set to BST. Is BST something like
British
> >Standard Time? If so, your UNIX box is the one that needs to be
adjusted
> >for daylight savings. My earlier comment of checking the output of net
time> >may show this. Timezones on UNIX are always a bit confusing, look at
the
> >manpages about TIMEZONE.
> >
>
> This need correcting immediately.
>
> BST = British Summer Time (NOT 'Standard' time).
>
> the normal timezone in the UK is GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, the
"base"
> time for all timezones). BST is GMT+1 and applies between the last Sunday
> in March and the last Sunday in October (01:00 GMT in both cases). (EU
> Seventh Directive 94/21/EC defines these dates in all member states)
>
> Your timezone variable should read:-
>
> TZ=GMT0BST-1,M3.5.0/1,M10.5.0/2
>
> (the reason that there's a '2' at the end is because the time
to switch
> out of the alternate timezone is based on the time in the alternate
> timezone, not the normal timezone) (the reason it says 'BST-1' is
just
> the oddness of the way UNIX denotes timezones. BST _is_ ahead of GMT).
>
>
> Hope this helps
>
>
> (BTW, is the TZ variable correct in the environment that the Samba
> Daemon runs in?)
>
> Mac
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> dmccann@nibsc.ac.uk
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