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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: The switch to daylight savings time
Message-ID: <FGNAQA8@xds13.ferranti.com>
Keywords: CMOS, date, DST, setclock, time, TZ, Xenix 3.0
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <9@phlpa.UUCP> <PINKAS.91Apr9141415@st860.intel.com> <1991Apr10.114836.10816@convex.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 15:57:29 GMT

In article <1991Apr10.114836.10816@convex.com> andy@piziali.lonestar.org (Andy Piziali) writes:
> I am running IBM Xenix 1.0, a Microsoft Xenix 3.0 derivative,

We're running Xenix 3.5 here.

> My question is: are the two dates which delimit the period of the year DST is
> in effect hard coded into the kernel and could these dates have differed from
> the current dates at the time this Xenix was written?

Yes, and yes.

Every year, twice a year, we change TZ from CST6CDT to CDT5, and reboot
the computers (or just log everyone out and restart cron).
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