On 14 Sep 2000, at 13:30, Barry Lake wrote:

> Additionally, since Powerhouse is written in C, it almost
> certainly uses the ctime() and/or the mktime() library functions,
> and these functions rely upon a correct value in your TZ
> variable.  As Doug points out, check what your TIMEZONE setting
> is (use the SHOWCLOCK command), but also make sure you have the
> correct TZ variable set.

So, if I do this then my problem "should" go away?

SETVAR TZ=EST0

Since my reference time (which I believe to be the hardware
clock) is set to EST the offset is 0.  Since we don't follow DST
then the absence of the third argument means that DST is
ignored.  Have I grasped this correctly?

Regards,
Jim

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