RE: Timezone configuration

[Tony Sarendal <tony@torped.se>]

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Thorsten Lockert wrote:

> > 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.
> 
Does this mean that I must recompile twice a year ?

Tony S

> Thorsten
>