Can someone explain to me why this happens:
[yen]$ date
Fri Oct 27 00:51:29 PDT 2006
[yen]$ export TZ=EDT
[yen]$ date
Fri Oct 27 07:51:39 EDT 2006
I was expecting to see Fri Oct 27 03:51:39 EDT 2006 in the last line since Eastern Daylight Time is 3 hours ahead of Pacific Daylight Time (ie where the servers are). How’d I end up with 7 hours difference?