030406 David Guntner wrote: > 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)? >> 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.
a blank line, so it hasn't been defined. > 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 rc.d scripts sets the timezone (TZ) variable at boot time. seems not. there's no problem, but i'm just interested how it happens. it's always possible it won't happen one year & i'll need to fix it. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto
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