Philip Webb said:
>
> my computer's clock just made the change to N American EDT
> automatically. is this controlled by Xntpd, which i have running,
> or by something else in the Mandrake-Linux set-up (9.0rc1 currently)? i
> can't find anything in the NTP document'n on the subject.
At a shell prompt, type:
echo $TZ
What does it say? (That's usually what controls that action on a *NIX
machine.)
I never understand the named timezones that Mandrake provides, so I use
the old style (I.E. PST8PDT as the timezone - that tells it I'm in pacific
time, that's it's timezone +8, and that this area has daylight savings
time in effect). If you live in an area that doesn't have daylight
savings time, you can set it to EDT5 and it won't change. I think. :-)
One of your startup rc.d scripts sets the timezone (TZ) variable at boot
time.
--Dave
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