Linux-Hams archive - June 1999: Re: mtrack-0.2 proper release

Re: mtrack-0.2 proper release

Tomi Manninen (qpbsw.alwzibrxpj@mailit.tunk.net)
Mon, 7 Jun 1999 12:50:36 +0300 (EETDST)


On 7 Jun 1999, Jonathan NAYLOR wrote:

> > I noticed something a bit weird;
> >
> > [11:16pm] hamish@hamishpc:~> date
> > Fri Jun 4 23:16:24 EST 1999
> > [11:16pm] hamish@hamishpc:~> env TZ=UTC date
> > Fri Jun 4 13:16:27 UTC 1999
>
> There is a flag in one of the structures that signals whether Daylight
> Saving Time is in force. It may be that the value in the flag is
> (a) bogus, or (b) I am testing it slightly wrong.

FWIW it seems to work ok for me. At least yesterday when I tested mtrack
displayed the same time as "date -u" in the same machine (three hours
less than local time as we are in EET-3DST now). I have set the
time offset to zero in the preferences dialog and TZ is unset.

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