Re: Purpose of TZ setting?

Am 08.03.09 09.59 schrieb Mark Dodel:
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 10:15:54 UTC, Wolfi <publicalfa-ng@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

-> Isn't the purpose (or at least a major one) of the TZ string in
-> Config.sys, that the OS is supposed to be able to take care of ST/DST
-> changes for the system clock on its own?
->
-> At least that's what I thought so far, but I just witnessed, that
-> nothing of that matter happened tonight @2 o'clock CST :-(
->
-> Despite TZ=CST6CDT,3,2,0,7200,11,1,0,7200,3600 my system depended on
-> Time868 to eventually make the switch to DST on its next run, since OS/2
-> didn't do it.
->
-> Or am I wrong about my expectation?

Thanks Mark,

What version of eCS do you have? The time changing utility was left
out of eCS 2.0 (not sure if it was in 1.2 or not, it's been a while)
because the author dropped support and asked that it be removed.
There is a new app by Alex Taylor that you have to install. I presume
that the 2.0 GA will have it automatically. Or you can continue to
just use Time868.

This is actually still a W4 system, but for some 10+ years I'm running
Tim868 on it, which then took care of the switch on its next run, when
the local time differed from the reference server's.

So far I never actually witnessed or paid attention to what was (not)
happening right about the transition time and my mistake was, that I
came to believe, that the OS itself would already be smart enough,
having the required logic built in and able to do it on its own.
.

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