RE: [cobalt-users] Sending email to AOL - timezone problem

["Ryan Gray" <ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The CST6CDT isn't so much a time setting as it is a pointer to the
zoneinfo file that is responsible for Central Time.  Look at
/usr/share/zoneinfo/CST6CDT - you'll need to do a zdump on it to see the
contents.

Also, this isn't a problem with semantics - it is a technical problem.  It
is a problem with the box reporting the right time, date, year, timezone,
but mail sent through the box is being tagged with timezones that don't
exist.

Regards,
Ryan Gray
Catalyst Solutions, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Carrie
Bartkowiak
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 10:46 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Sending email to AOL - timezone problem


||>The US has 4 time Zones ... Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific
||>... each are
||>one hour less moving east to west. Excluding those states that do not
||>observe daylight savings time of course.
||>
||>
||>isn't the cdt daylight time and the cst standard time and they
||>are an hour
||>different.....?
||>

I think what he's saying is: you're putting
"CST6CDT"
Which looks like
CentralStandardTime6CentralDaylightTime

Which cancels itself out, or makes you think - well which is it? Standard or
Daylight?
If the CDT doesn't stand for CentralDaylightTime, then a quick note on what
it *does* stand for might help.  :)

Here on the coast we do both EST and EDT, depending on what part of the year
it is. (Personally, it annoys the hell outta me!)

Carrie Bartkowiak

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