From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-04-14T23:30:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Time's dst? strangeness

On 4/11/07, Chris Shea <cmshea@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've looked at previous threads about dst? and isdst giving incorrect
> results, though they seem to hinge upon Daylight Savings Time
> information being incorrect, or not updated properly on the OS side.
>
> I think the results I'm finding aren't because of my DST settings
> (though I'm unsure how to check). (I doubt, however, that somehow
> Apple is shipping computers set to switch back to Standard Time at
> 1:17:04am on November 4.)

I'm guessing that OS X has the date command, try something like

  date -d"Nov 04 01:17:00" +%Z

to see what the OS thinks.


> (I also tested this on a couple other machines. A Windows box got it
> wrong (all false), and two linux boxes got it right (all true).)

Which makes me think that this is probably a problem with the OS.

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