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it needs a big database of timezone data to do that sort of stuff properly, and I doubt that the empeg has that database.

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Isn't that what's in /usr/share/zoneinfo? I believe that's where the player gets its timezones from.

Even just to do summer time, it needs the timezone stuff, as the dates vary by place...

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You could try ``TZ=EDT6 date'' and see if that works.

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Did you try that yourself? For me, that just returns the UTC time:

empeg:/empeg/bin# date; TZ=EDT6 date; TZ=GMT0BST date;
Thu Aug 7 12:57:32 /home/empeg/arm 2003
Thu Aug 7 12:57:31 EDT 2003
Thu Aug 7 13:57:31 BST 2003