On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 02:16:17PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:48:38PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:36:21PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > > > > > > I'll assume you're in the UK: You are mistaken in believing your time > > > zone is set correctly if you have set it for BST. You're not on BST at > > > all. > > > > Um, I didn't *set* it for BST, I set it for London: > > > > Your default time zone is set to 'Europe/London'. > > Local time is now: Mon Oct 25 21:48:09 BST 1999. > > Universal Time is now: Mon Oct 25 20:48:09 UTC 1999. > > According to my TZ files, the above is correct: you're still an hour > off UTC. (This is also what zdump says on Solaris.)
Right. And this is what I should be (looking at the date header in my emails confirms it too). > > So what should I be doing? > > I'm confused as to what the problem is then. Cron's knackered. > Is it not 10:15pm or so there? Yep, it's now 10:23pm. > It sure looks like you're not supposed to be on UTC yet: even the BBC > pages show "Monday, October 25, 1999 Published at 20:45 GMT 21:45 UK" > which makes it clear to me that your local time -should- be an hour > later than UTC. Apparently so. I'm flummoxed as to what to do now. CCing back to debian-user. > Of course vi is God's editor. If He used Emacs, He'd still be > waiting for it to load on the seventh day. Heh :) Thanks, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ http://wasters.org/]
