Re: [Gcl-devel] get-decoded-time

[Peter Wood]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 07:18:06PM -0400, David Shochat wrote:

> I tried this on gcl at 7:02 PM. I'm in the US Eastern time zone 
> (Greenwich-5) and got:
> 24
> 2
> 17
> 8
> 8
> 2002
> 3
> NIL
> 6
> This is wrong. Evidently it thinks I'm in the US Central zone and 
> that it is not Daylight Savings Time.

This is configurable with system::*default-time-zone*.  Probably an
appropriate value for the system should be set when configuring GCL,
instead of the default of 6 which is only OK if you happen to be in
or near Austin, Texas :-)

Regards,
Peter