>> The timezones start with Zulu (0) in Greenwich and go west +1h til +12 
>> 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).
>
>Dont forget the pacific islands that are 13h east of Greenwich.
>
>Not to mention the odd area that is on a 15minute boundary :-)
>
>Oh, and summertime leaps in the other direction south of the equater.

mmm, yes.  or the election problems in brasil last year that delayed
their transition into daylight savings time.

or the solar time files with a different micro-adjustment for every
day of the year.

>The problem you might actually have is that the bios clock
>has to get set to GMT. (Or you have to build a kernel that
>knows the offset).

for cases like this, i typically leave the bios clock in gmt and then
find some time zone for windows to sit in such that it's got the local
wall clock time more or less correct.  i think that was also gmt when
i last tried it.

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