2024-12-25 | [wintercamp]
Winter Camp uses a unique timekeeping method where you set your watch ahead of Eastern Standard Time by 77 minutes. There are various reasons for this which I won't get into here. Regardless, most modern devices have no such support for this special time zone. Here's how to do it:
or other systemd systems:
make a file WCST.zone with this content, like so:
echo "Zone America/Winter_Camp -3:43 - WCST" > WCST.zone
Then, compile it with zic and copy it to the system time zones like so:
sudo zic -d /usr/share/zoneinfo WCST.zone
There should now be a file Winter_Camp in /usr/share/zoneinfo/America. It won't appear in the system selection dialogs, but you can use it like this:
sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/Winter_Camp
and to change back to normal time,
sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/Detroit
In either case, the date command should show the correct time zone.
Use this link or make a file with this content, and save it as WCST.reg.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones\Winter Camp Savings Time]
"Display"="(UTC-03:43) Winter Camp Savings Time"
"Dlt"="Winter Camp Savings Time"
"TZI"=hex:df,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,c4,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"MUI_Display"="Winter Camp Savings Time"
"MUI_Dlt"="Winter Camp Savings Time"
"MUI_Std"="Winter Camp Savings Time"
"Std"="Winter Camp Savings Time"
This is a registry hack. You should be able to double click on this and install it into the registry. This one will appear in the system dialogs. Right click the clock on the taskbar, and choose "adjust date/time". You can choose it like any other time zone.
Yeah, I don't have the patience for this one. On either Apple or Android, it's really probably going to look something like Linux, but in practice this seems out of reach of the average person. Would likely require a root / jailbreak as the case may be. Just turn off "set time automaticially" and move the minutes ahead yourself.