CET timezone without DST

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Mon, 2007-04-23 18:01:34 +0100, robert laing <r.laing at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> i'm staging a uclibc-gentoo on an embedded device.
> i need to use a CET timezone without daylight saving.
> 
> what is the correct string to put in /etc/TZ?
> 
> reading this, i've seen only TZ whit dst
> http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Configuration#head-a7708420e79025405daa939605108397c2bd7343

CET is only defined during the winter months. It's CEST during the
summer months, defined by local (or european?) law.

With GNU libc, you can, however, use the more complex ways to define
TZ. In practice, you can do with it a lot more than only assigning
predefined timezone labels.

For example:

$ TZ='CET-1' date
Mon Apr 23 18:34:14 CET 2007

redefines CET to use an offset of one hour during all the year.

$ TZ='CET-1CEST,M3.5.0/2:00,M10.5.0/3:00' date
Mon Apr 23 19:35:46 CEST 2007

would even produce a somewhat correct date representation, though you
seem to not want that :)

But keep in mind that I don't know if uClibc's TZ parsing can
interpret that.  It's simply untested.

MfG, JBG

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