Re: Changing TimeZone

["Markku Niku, Sun Northern Europe" <Markku.Niku@Sweden>]

This is what I did and got my whole calendar messed up. Let say that
this is a (dirty) workaround and it could be working in those parts
of the world where you are not dealing with daylight saving times.
GMT for example is a fix time which is not even valid in Greenwich
during the summer time!

I know that here in our Stockholm office the change to summertime caused
problem to those who are using PilotManager using perl 5.003 but not
for those who use perl 5.004. 

//Markku
> FOlks,
> 
> I believe that you may be able to solve the timezone problem by just
> changing the TZ environment variable. (this worked for me running Solaris
> 2.6)
> 
> For example:
> 
> %echo $TZ
> US/Mountain
> 
> #causes the known PilotManager message about not being able to run
> 
> #if I do this in ksh
> 
> % export TZ=MST7MDT
> 
> # corrects the problem and PilotManager works just fine.
> 
> Hope it helps ....
> 
>         --jc
> 
> 
> Amod Patwardhan wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > Propably your perl is old or your pilotmanager is old (or both).
> > > Don't try to fix the timezone. Idon't know if it was the cause
> > > but anyhow I managed to crash my whole calender database (90%
> > > of appointments disappeared!).
> > >
> > > rgds Markku, Sun Sweden (MET<>GMT-2)
> >
> > This is not true. I'm running Perl 5.004, with PilotMgr 1.106, and have
> > the same problem.
> >
> > Personally, this error is very annoying; as I'd rather have a
> > slightly-off schedule in my Pilot than lose the ability to Sync my
> > schedule altogether. Now I'm at the mercy of convincing someone in
> > IT/ENS to change the time zone description on my machine. They are
> > either not buying the reason for my request, or will get around to it
> > "eventually". I don't have the time to be haggling with them about
> > this. At the moment, since I can't sync: I'm screwed.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
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