Subject: Timezone for Pc-Pine

From: Kevin B Fleming <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 17:58:21 +1030 (est)

From where does Pc-Pine (for Windows 16bit) get its timezone from ?

My Timezone is incorrect by 7 hours (PDT time). I assume this is a 
default time zone..

Thanks.

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From: Hans Schleichert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 10:39:55 +0200

> My Timezone is incorrect by 7 hours (PDT time). I assume this is a 

Insert the following command into your PC's AUTOEXEC.BAT (or CONFIG.SYS,
if you're running DOS 6 or higher):

SET TZ=<tz><off><dst>

where you replace <tz> by a 3-character timezone name, <off> by the
timezone offset (like -7 or 5 for 7 hours behind or 5 hours ahead of GMT),
and <dst> by a 3-character abbreviation for daylight savings tiem zone.

I believe PINE takes the offset wrong, so play with it until it works.

            -  Hans
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Hans Schleichert, Dipl.-Phys.
Institut fuer Medizinische Psychologie und Verhaltensneurobiologie
(Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology)
Eberhard-Karls-University
Gartenstrasse 29
D-72074 Tuebingen, Germany

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 09:21:36 -0700

> I believe PINE takes the offset wrong, so play with it until it works.

Pine takes the offset the same way that the C library does.  West of GMT
is positive, east is negative.  Not that this is the opposite of the way
that RFC 822 works.

The DOS default is PST8PDT for US west coast time, which happens to be
where Microsoft is located...[it's where we're located too, but we didn't
do it -- if we had we probably would have used GMT.]

Whether or not this is "wrong" is, of course, a matter of opinion.  What's
important is that Pine does the same thing as all other PC software that
follows Microsoft's conventions.

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