[plug] CVS timezones

[Ryan]

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 13:56, Kai wrote:
> I could be wrong but I think you need to add +0800 like this:
> Tue Apr 29 13:35:24 +0800 WST 2003

How do I add that?  +0800 doesn't appear to be a valid 'thing' to pass to 
'date --set="things"' and I normally use ntpdate to set the clock which
doesn't seem to be well educated on GMT offsets.

Is the +0800 set by the timezone config or by whatever sets the time 
(date/ntpdate etc)?

I would have thought WST would do the job, but I have seen systems that
report +xxxx as you suggested.

When I install Debian I always say the clock is set to GMT 
(even if it isn't) as I never bothered to find out what that question was 
really asking.  Am I wrong to do that?  If so, how do I fix it?

*blank stare*

Ryan