[Fwd: a problem with timezones]

[Carlo Robazza <e4k3l9lb@umail.corel.com>]

Hi there,

I sent the following note to what I thought was the maintainers for the
timezone deb but it wound up on the debian-glibc list. Unfortunately,
there have been no replies to my posting so I felt I should post it here
to see if anyone knows what might be going on.

Please note that I don't believe it to be a KDE issue since I can
reproduce the problem on the command line.

Thanks for your help,

Carlo.
Corel.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: a problem with timezones
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:32:39 -0500
From: "Carlo Robazza" <carlor@corel.com>
Organization: Corel Corporation
To: debian-glibc@lists.debian.org

Hi there,

I work for Corel and am responsible for the Control Center under KDE. I
have implemented the kcmclock module which allows the user to change the
date, time and timezone. I have run into something very confusing having
to do with timezones and I don't know if it is a bug or not. Hopefully
you can help me out.

If I set my system to EST (Americal/Montreal) everything works fine. If
I try to set it to GMT-5, which in my mind is the same as EST, I get a
time that is 5 hours ahead of GMT instead of 5 hours behind GMT. In
order to get the time to be the same as America/Montreal I have to
select GMT+5. This seems to be the case for other GMT time zones as well
(i.e. the + and - seem to be reversed).

Is this a bug or am I just missing something?


Thanks,

Carlo.
Corel.
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