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* Andrew Brown (atatat@atatdot.net) wrote:
> >I live in Italy, GMT+1.
> >I have a NetBSD machine (1.6 currently) whose kernel is set to have a 0=
=20
> >minutes west of GMT (west???). Hence, hardware clock is set to GMT.
> >I have a symlink for /etc/localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT+1
> >
> >Now the problems:
> >1) "date" gives the time 2 hours behind localtime (as if I told it to us=
e=20
> >GMT-1)
>=20
> your local time is one hour ahead of gmt, so you need to substract one
> hour to calculate gmt.  use GMT-1.  i need to add five hours to
> calculate gmt (from north america), so i am at GMT+5.

No, thats incorrect. You are living in North America so you are living=20
in GMT-5, please see http://www.time.gov/ for USA=20

The timezones start with Zulu (0) in Greenwich and go west +1h til +12=20
from there on it is counted viceversa from -12 down to Zulu, so there are 25
timezone (Mike and Yankee are used for the geographically dateborder).

> >2) sending mails puts headers like this: (from a mail I sent today)
> >Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:00:18 -0100 (GMT+1)
> >Now, GMT time is still correct (13:00:18) but local time was 14:00:18, t=
he=20
> >time should be +0100 (GMT+1) not -0100 (GMT-1)
> >
> >I really don't understand what and why happens.
>=20
> i would suggest using one of more readable zones like Europe/Rome,
> Europe/Vatican, Europe/San_Marino, or Europe/Malta, depending on your
> taste.  otherwise, you should switch to Etc/GMT-1.

Sure not your mailprogram is the problem?
I used pine and now mutt with GMT+1 (Berlin) and I got no Problems.

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