Roy, In Debian you can use the "tzconfig" utility to set your timezone.
EDT means Eastern Daylight Time, i.e. Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal. HTH, Hendrik Schaink 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 have my BIOS clock set to local time. I am in Lethbridge. I want my >timezone to be Canada/Mountain but I use Evolution for my PIM and it >will only accept America/Edmonton. That is okey with me. I know that >Edmonton is in the same timezone as Mountain. If I run tzconfig and set >my timezone to Canada/Mountain then run "hwclock --hctosys" to get the >clock set. I run date and see "Wed Aug 24 09:18:24 EDT 2005" that is the >correct time but WTF is EDT. I was expecting to see MDT like Mandrake >shows me. This also seems to be a problem with the UTC. > >This is what I get on Mandrake >date; date -u >Wed Aug 24 09:22:35 MDT 2005 >Wed Aug 24 15:22:35 UTC 2005 > >This is what I get on Debian >date; date -u >Wed Aug 24 09:21:54 EDT 2005 >Wed Aug 24 13:21:54 UTC 2005 > >From reading dozens of pages where people are having problems with >timezone settings in Debian I have found that this is most likely the >cause of the problem I am having with Evolution. For the most part as >long as my local time is correct I am happy but the time problem is >doing very goofy stuff with Evolution. If I make an appointment in my >calendar or set some event this is what happens. >Double click on a time say 9:00 AM. The event dialog shows up and it >says that my event will be at 1:00PM the same day. Save the even and it >will be scheduled to happen at 5:00 PM. Sync it to my Palm Pilot and the >event is marked to be at 3:00 AM. Now that is some messed up stuff. > >I have found a way to force the date command to produce the proper >results. Debian is making a symlink from /etc/localtime to some timezone >file in /usr/share/zoneinfo. By doing a md5sum on the Mandrake system >and a search for a matching file on Debian I found that the proper file >is in /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/America/Edmonton and by manualy >liking /etc/localtime to that file my date commands give the right times >and zones. Evolution is still giving goofy times for events but I may >have to reboot to fix that problem. I don't like this solution because >tzconfig will not let me select the postfix files as my time zone. > >I have checked and all my debs are upto date with Sarge. > >Questions for Debian experts: >1) Why can't I select postfix timezones with tzconfig? > >2) What should /etc/timezone say? > >3) What is the problem with Evolution? > > >Roy Souther >www.SiliconTao.com >Let Open Source help your business move beyond. > >For security this message is digitally authenticated by GnuPG. > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ 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
