Upcoming Indiana time zone moves
Paul Eggert
eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU
Wed Jan 25 00:02:57 UTC 2006
Arthur David Olson <olsona at elsie.nci.nih.gov> writes:
> + If you want two separate transitions
> + (for example,
> + a one-hour retreat from
> + U. S. Eastern Standard Time
> + to
> + U. S. Central Standard Time
> + followed one hour later by a one-hour advance to
> + U. S. Central Daylight Time),
> + you can artificially
> + (and slightly inaccurately)
> + specify the UTC offset change as occuring a single second too early.
I found that you can do it without the one-second glitch, by coding
the transitions by hand, as follows.
Zone Hypothetical -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 7:00u
-6:00 - CST 2006 Apr 2 8:00u
-6:00 1:00 CDT 2006 Apr 2 9:00u
-6:00 US C%sT
I couldn't figure out any way to do it with just two transitions,
which would be the obvious way to do it. (Nor could I do it with wall
clock time; I had to resort to UTC.)
Admittedly this is kind of kludgy. I suppose zic could make it easier
to shoot yourself in the foot, though surely this is low priority.
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