Re: Using time zone UTC-5 (or GMT-5, or EST5)
staticsafe wrote:
On 4/23/2013 18:31, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I am getting some data on mountable media, and the device which writes
> the files runs in EST or whatever you want to call five hours west of
> Greenwich with no daylight time. The problem is that on a FAT or
> ISO-9660 filesystem, the date and time seem to all jump an hour during
> daylight time. Is there a better way to get the time correct than to run
> a separate system which doesn't use daylight savings?
>
> I have tried exporting TZ=EST5 (or EST or UTC-5 or GMT-5) to the mount
> command or the rsync command, that doesn't seem to help anything, I need
> the incoming data treated as EST, while the machine is at EST5EDT.
>
Something I found on a quick google search:
http://sabg.tk/wiki/config:vfat
which leads to:
http://www.osnews.com/story/9681/
Perhaps helpful?
Perhaps. I have to play with it a bit to see what it does in practice before I
fully trust it to work, but the information is useful in any case.
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