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Re: Daylight Savings or TimeZone Problem - I Can't Sync Up!
- To: Craig O Sullivan <craigo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Daylight Savings or TimeZone Problem - I Can't Sync Up!
- From: "Andrew Moore (x75958)" <andrew.moore@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 08:59:27 -0600
- Cc: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- References: <199904100204.TAA27219@sunmktg.eng.sun.com>
- Sender: owner-pilotmgr@moshpit
Craig,
You are not alone. I'm seeing this as well using version 1.106. Can anyone confirm if this is a problem in the newer version?
- Andrew
Craig O Sullivan wrote:
> When I attempt to run the program "PilotManager" and sychronize my Sun/Solaris/Ultra1 work station with my palm pilot, a window popps open stating "Pay Attention!" "Your OS has a bug in the time of day code. This bug causes the dates to slowly travel backward in time and interferes with the PilotManager's performance. This bug is caused by having a bad timezone environment variable setting. Your timezone is set to US/Pacific you might try setting it to a more specific timezone, for example US/Pacific maps to: PST8PDT."
>
> I therefore set TZ=PST8PDT. I then closed all application and logged out and logged back in. I then used the shell command, echo $TZ, and confirmed that TZ=PST8PDT.
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> It didn't help. PilotManager still refuses to let me sync up!
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> If anyone knows how to fix this pleae email me at "craig.osullivan@xxxxxxxxxxx" or call me at (408) 544-0222.
>
> Thanks
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