RE: Timezone configuration

["Thorsten Lockert" <tholo@sigmasoft.com>]

> Okay, well I'm on NZ time (NZST), which is UTC+12, so I put the
> following into the options:
> 
> TIMEZONE=-720
> DST=-60
>
> I'm assuming DST is relative to TIMEZONE.

DST should always be positive.

> However, having built the kernel and booted it, my time is now off by
> one hour. For example, wall clock time is 1700 hours here, and the
> kernel is reporting it as being 1600 hours...

You should only have the DST variable set when daylight savings is
actually in effect.

Thorsten