On Wednesday 24 August 2005 07:36, Royce Souther wrote: > I am trying to get my timzone set properly in Debian. I have been using > Mandrake for over five years now and never had such problems as I am > with Debian. I don't fully understand what Debian is doing with the > timezone settings. I hope someone can explain it to me.
I'm not familiar with Debian specifics, but am familiar with the /usr/share/zoneinfo/... bit... Part of the usual setup for my box (running Gentoo) is to do a symbolic link of the appropriate file to /etc/localtime. For me, I'm using /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Mountain. The command I use to set the timezone is ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Mountain /etc/localtime And if you are in another timezone, then it's just a matter of finding the right one under /usr/share/zoneinfo. I've seen cases where automated software will pick the American timezone, which is fine in some cases, but get's messed up with daylight savings time. This results in the wrong zone, and the wrong time being shown. Don't know if that helps much, but here's hoping... :) Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
