Subject: Help with PC-pine TimeZone variable

From: Dario Bottini <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 14:04:44 +0100 (MET)

We need some help with PC-Pine 3.89, which we have installed on our PCs
(with FTP INC. PC-TCP).
We are already using Pine 3.89 on Unix and have an impad server on one of
the Suns, which we manage to access from the other workstations.
Our problems is the setting of the varialbe TZ (Time Zone).
In our first installation (some months ago) we set TZ=MET+DST but with 
this value Pine was not able to read mails because insted of write "MET" 
in mail headers it wrote "+DS". 
So we tried the new setting: TZ=   MET+DST (with tree blanks) and we 
have had not more problems. Unfortunately, some days ago, some our 
users were not again able to read their mails because in their mail headers 
in place of the string "MET" there were tree blanks. So we had to change 
TZ value in the original ones: TZ=MET+DST (without blanks).
At the moment we have some users that need to use TZ=   MET+DST and others
that need to use ZT=MET+DST.
Do you now something about this? 
We noted that the users who needed to chance TZ (from "   MET+DST" to
"MET+DST") had folders very big, about 400-500 Kbyte.
Thanks.

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 21:28:02 -0800

PC-Pine 3.89 had known problems with timezone handling.  Please upgrade 
to PC-Pine 3.91

I don't understand what TZ=MET+DST is supposed to mean.  Shouldn't it be 
TZ=MET-1DST instead?

-- Mark --