Re: [CentOS] tzdata, Greenwich zone: URGENT!

2008-06-05 Thread Karanbir Singh
Anne Wilson wrote: This is driving me crazy. Now I can make an appointment for 10a.m., and depending on which computer I use to read the korganizer file it may show up as 10a.m. or 11a.m., and there's no indication, of course, which computer originated the entry, so I can't tell which is the

Re: [CentOS] tzdata, Greenwich zone: URGENT!

2008-06-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 05 June 2008 11:14:16 Karanbir Singh wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: This is driving me crazy. Now I can make an appointment for 10a.m., and depending on which computer I use to read the korganizer file it may show up as 10a.m. or 11a.m., and there's no indication, of course, which

Re: [CentOS] tzdata, Greenwich zone: URGENT!

2008-06-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 17:06:09 Karanbir Singh wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Where/how is the system clock set? My server appears to have the system clock on GMT/UTC and KDE on British Time. you can use the 'hwclock' command to set / reset / retrieve the physical hardware clock timestamp.

Re: [CentOS] tzdata, Greenwich zone: URGENT!

2008-06-04 Thread Guy Boisvert
Johnny Hughes wrote: I use UTC make sure that the file /etc/sysconfig/clock says this: #---start cut ZONE=UTC UTC=true ARC=false #---end cut Copy the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC to /etc/localtime set the time via an ntp server with the command (if ntp is installed): ntpdate -s

Re: [CentOS] tzdata, Greenwich zone: URGENT!

2008-06-04 Thread Michael Simpson
Checking /usr/share/zoneinfo/, i saw GMT, GMT0, GMT-0, GMT+0, UTC Greenwich. Does anybody knows the differences between all these or could provide a link to a reference? I found some infos but nothing that explains the subtlety. Basicly it comes down to GMT being based on the

[CentOS] tzdata, Greenwich zone: URGENT!

2008-06-03 Thread Guy Boisvert
Hi! It appears that there have been some changes to tzdata recently. We run an application that needs the server to stay at GMT. Previously, we used the Casablanca timezone but now there seems to be a 1 hour difference to GMT. I checked the London zone and they seem to change time

Re: [CentOS] tzdata, Greenwich zone: URGENT!

2008-06-03 Thread Karanbir Singh
Guy Boisvert wrote: Hi! It appears that there have been some changes to tzdata recently. We run an application that needs the server to stay at GMT. Previously, we used the Casablanca timezone but now there seems to be a 1 hour difference to GMT. I checked the London zone and they seem to

Re: [CentOS] tzdata, Greenwich zone: URGENT!

2008-06-03 Thread Marcelo Roccasalva
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Guy Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! It appears that there have been some changes to tzdata recently. We run an application that needs the server to stay at GMT. Previously, we used the Casablanca timezone but now there seems to be a 1 hour

Re: [CentOS] tzdata, Greenwich zone: URGENT!

2008-06-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 14:57:29 Karanbir Singh wrote: Guy Boisvert wrote: Hi! It appears that there have been some changes to tzdata recently. We run an application that needs the server to stay at GMT. Previously, we used the Casablanca timezone but now there seems to be a 1 hour

Re: [CentOS] tzdata, Greenwich zone: URGENT!

2008-06-03 Thread Karanbir Singh
Anne Wilson wrote: Where/how is the system clock set? My server appears to have the system clock on GMT/UTC and KDE on British Time. you can use the 'hwclock' command to set / reset / retrieve the physical hardware clock timestamp. And you can use what Marcelo already pointed out to set a

Re: [CentOS] tzdata, Greenwich zone: URGENT!

2008-06-03 Thread Johnny Hughes
Guy Boisvert wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 03 June 2008 14:57:29 Karanbir Singh wrote: Guy Boisvert wrote: Hi! It appears that there have been some changes to tzdata recently. We run an application that needs the server to stay at GMT. Previously, we used the Casablanca timezone but