Bangalore not in the same time zone as Calcutta?

[Guy Harris]

This is a message that showed up in "info.sun-managers"; the only time
zone I could find for India in the "tzdata96b" file was

# India
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
Zone	Asia/Calcutta	5:53:28 -	LMT	1880
			5:53	-	CMT	1941 Oct    # Calcutta Mean Time
			6:30	-	BMT	1942 May 15
			5:30	-	IST	1942 Sep
			5:30	1:00	IST	1945 Oct 15
			5:30	-	IST

which is 5 1/2 hours from GMT, not 5 hours from GMT....

From: jerome at india.ti.com (Jerome Alphonse)
Newsgroups: info.sun-managers
Subject: date problems between Solaris and SunOS
Date: 27 Jan 1996 20:06:01 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Message-ID: <199601270204.HAA02126 at supernova.india.ti.com>

Hello Gurus
      Our timezone is GMT+5.
We have setup our machines in this timezone

So in SunOS machines , if I give date command ,the output is

Sat Jan 27 06:45:57 GMT+0500 1996

Which seems to be okay.

In Solaris machines, if I give date command, the output is
(though we have set it up as GMT+5,during installation)

Sat Jan 27 06:45:01 GMT 1996

Becoz' of which we are not able to run certain Solaris applications
which look into SUNOS or HP-UX machines for licensing as license
gives error saying that time gap is more than it could handle
(probably those wretched 5 hours).

Becoz of this time stamp of the files created across NFS( between 
SUNOS and Solaris), is also crazy
In Solaris machines

-rw-rw-r--  1 aravind         0 Jan 26 20:47 123
-rw-rw-r--  1 aravind         0 Jan 26 20:47 234

In Solaris machines ,same files(across NFS)

-rw-rw-r--  1 aravind         0 Jan 27 06:47 123
-rw-rw-r--  1 aravind         0 Jan 27 06:47 234

And also due to this time zone problem , I suspect there
are some NFS mount problems which I posted in this forum a day or two
before.

Regards
Jerome

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