On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:44:41PM -0600, Miller, Keven wrote:
> Not having done this before, but reading the entries much like
> a cron entry, and using 2nd sunday March to 1st Sunday Nov,
> I would see the entries like this:
>
> Bruce Collins wrote:
> > EST5EDT
> > 0 3 24-30 4  1970-1973 0   EDT4
> > 0 3 6     1  1974      0-6 EDT4
> > 0 3 22-28 2  1975      0   EDT4
> > 0 3 24-30 4  1976-1986 0   EDT4
> > 0 3 1-7   4  1987-2006 0   EDT4
>    0 3 8-14  3  2007-2038 0   EDT4
>
> > 0 1 25-31 10 1970-1973 0   EST5
> > 0 1 24-30 11 1974      0   EST5
> > 0 1 25-31 10 1975-2006 0   EST5
>    0 1 1-7   11 2007-2038 0   EST5
>
>
> Columns are
> minute hour date-range month year or year-range  dont'know  TZ

That "don't know" column is most likely "day of week."  Except for
daily savings in 1974, it's on a sunday.  (Apparently, DST in 1974
was on a particular day, whatver day of the week it was.)

Dave

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