"Eric Gillespie, Jr." wrote:
  >I've noticed a similar problem on my system. I first noticed me when
  >someone pointed out to me that my mail's time says "-0600 (EST)" which is,
  >of course, incorrect. It should read CST. I asked what was going on once,
  >but no one responded. I ran your little program and got this output:
  >tzname=[EST,CDT]
  >timezone=21600
  >
  >That should be CST,CDT and 3600. Does anyone know what's going on here?
 
I can't comment on why you're getting EST instead of CST, but 21600 is
surely correct for a 6 hour difference from UTC.

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