On 3/26/07, Dave Sigafoos davesigafoos@sanmar.com wrote:
Also, I would *guess* from the PST8PDT that this is 8 hours off of GMT, when currently we are 7 hours.
Here is a guess.
I will assume your from Seattle, Washington USA from your signature's area code and thus your TZ is PST8PDT . That is the abbreviation for "Pacific Standard Time/ Pacific Daylight Time" used in United States: California, Idaho (parts), Nevada, Oregon (parts), Washington. This differs from PST7PDT in ways you can read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zones#UTC_.E2.88.92_8.2C_U
The various 'leap year, time zone offset, daylight savings on, daylight savings off information is usually kept in some sort of file on your system. For example on a Unix Debian box its /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific.
Any how, these packages (libc infact on Deb) that provide that information need to be updated or tweaked with the new because the DST is three weeks earlier than before.
Linux Example: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/glibc/glibc_2.3.2.ds1-22sa... Others: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305056 http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst
Enjoy