Re: MST7MDT (and America/Denver?) timezone broken?

2000-04-05 Thread Scott Barker
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:03:51AM -0400, Touloumtzis, Michael wrote:
 I too got daylight time to be recognized by changing experimentally from
 the SystemV-style EST5EDT to America/New_York.  But that is not a solution
 to the problem that EST5EDT seems broken in frozen.  As for rebooting,
 I reserve that for my Win95 machine ;-).  Honestly, I've seen only one
 instance in 5 years of running Linux where I _had_ to reboot (the kernel
 was very confused about swap, and was emitting some _very_ alarming
 warning messages!).  It should be enough to '/etc/init.d/cron restart'.

I agree, and generally never reboot. I just wanted to see what the time was in
my CMOS clock, since 'hwclock' seems unable to report the actual value in the
CMOS clock like it did in slink. Yet another bug (although I note this one is
already listed in the Debian bug tracking system).

I took a look at the source for timezones from glic6, and I note that
America/Denver is the same as MST7MDT. Is anyone in the America/Denver
timezone having problems?

I also found that America/Edmonton is the same as Canada/Mountain. So, for
anyone else who lives in Calgary and doesn't want any reference to Edmonton on
their computer, do like me and switch to Canada/Mountain (you have to live
here to understand the rivalry between our two cities :)

I'm off to file a bug report...

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Re: MST7MDT (and America/Denver?) timezone broken?

2000-04-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
Scott Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:03:51AM -0400, Touloumtzis, Michael wrote:
  I too got daylight time to be recognized by changing experimentally from
  the SystemV-style EST5EDT to America/New_York.  But that is not a solution
  to the problem that EST5EDT seems broken in frozen.  As for rebooting,
  I reserve that for my Win95 machine ;-).  Honestly, I've seen only one
  instance in 5 years of running Linux where I _had_ to reboot (the kernel
  was very confused about swap, and was emitting some _very_ alarming
  warning messages!).  It should be enough to '/etc/init.d/cron restart'.
 
 I agree, and generally never reboot. I just wanted to see what the
 time was in my CMOS clock, since 'hwclock' seems unable to report
 the actual value in the CMOS clock like it did in slink. Yet another
 bug (although I note this one is already listed in the Debian bug
 tracking system).
 
 I took a look at the source for timezones from glic6, and I note
 that America/Denver is the same as MST7MDT. Is anyone in the
 America/Denver timezone having problems?

Haven't had a problem with either my home or my laptop both running
potato. The laptop was just updated yesterday, and the home machine a
week ago. The contents of the /etc/timezone files:

laptop: US/Mountain
home: MST7MDT

and neither of them has had a problem with the time. The laptop pretty
much runs 24/7 during the week, and this past weekend, but my home
system is generally powered up in the morning and shut down at night.

Gary