"D. R. Evans" wrote:
>
> On 24 May 01, at 21:05, David Rankin wrote:
>
> > "D. R. Evans" wrote:
> >
> > > On 25 May 01, at 0:47, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > >
> > > > So sprach D. R. Evans am Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:28:29PM -0600:
> > > > > This causes "date" to respond correctly, and the clock on the screen to
> > > > > display the correct time, but "date -u" gives the wrong time.
> > > >
> > > > Define 'wrong' time. My system clock is running on UTC and I live in CEST
> > > > zone (GMT/UTC +0200):
> > > >
> > > > [askwar@teich pear]$ date
> > > > Fre Mai 25 00:47:16 CEST 2001
> > > > [askwar@teich pear]$ date -u
> > > > Don Mai 24 22:47:18 UTC 2001
> > > >
> > > > Everything's fine.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Fine. Now please tell me how you did it :-)
> > >
> > > I told you what I did (following the documentation in "Linux
> > > Installation, Configuration and Use" for Red Hat systems), and that
> > > gives me the wrong UTC time. Here, being a perverse sort of chap, I
> > > define "wrong" as "not right" :-)
> > >
> > > [n7dr@localhost n7dr]$ date
> > > Thu May 24 18:29:18 /etc/localtime 2001
> > > [n7dr@localhost n7dr]$ date -u
> > > Thu May 24 18:29:21 UTC 2001
> > >
> > > Doc Evans
> > >
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> >
> > Your softlink from etc/localtime to America/Denver isn't set....
> >
> >
>
> Well, that's what I thought too. But:
>
> [n7dr@localhost n7dr]$ ls -al /etc/localtime
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 May 24 15:13 /etc/localtime ->
>/usr/share/zoninfo/US/Mountain
>
> Doc
>
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Whoa Doc, the message your replying to wasn't sent by me - David Rankin.
I think it was a reply to my response to you. I really think you and I
are talking about the same phenominon. You linux file stamps are 6 hours
in the future and the time samba serves for me is 5 hours in the future
(localtime not set) 10 hours in the future with localtime set to
America/Chicago. Hmmm.. something strange, but consistent is going on
here. Hopefully someone reading will have some additionaly insight as to
why time is slightly warped in our systems.
--
David Rankin
Rankin*Bertin, PLLC
Nacogdoches, Texas
