On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 02:05:22PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Teun Burgers wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > date displays the time with a 2 hour offset on my system.
> > So I should set my TZ environment variable,
> > as adviced in an older e-mail
> >
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-01/msg00463.html
> >
> > The example there says export TZ=EST5EDT.
> >
> > This does indeed work as expected. However
> > I am in MET (Amsterdam), but TZ=MET does not
> > work. How can I found out which timezones
> > date recognizes?
> >
>
> By doing some research using Google.com I found that TZ=MET-1DST works.
Just for the records, the correct TZ string for the middle/central
european timezone is
TZ=CET-1CEST-2,M3.5.0/02:00:00,M10.5.0/03:00:00
Corinna
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