Help! Timezones - Simple yet baffling

From: Sammy (mesammy_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/25/05

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    Hi Sun worshippers,

    I have a solaris 8 box in a country 1 hour ahead of the uk.

    I have therefore set the /etc/TIMEZONE TZ to GMT+1.

    I set the time to local time with date <localtime>.

    Two problems:
    1) When I do the date command, it writes GMT - why doesn't it write GMT+1?

    2) When I do date -u, it gives me a time on hour ahead of local time -
    not standard GMT time. If I set the time to GMT+2, then date -u
    gives me the time 2 hours AHEAD of local time!!!!! not what i expected

    What am i doing wrong?

    kind regards,

    Sammy
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