Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-09 Thread Roger Mason
Hi James, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I I re-emerge 'timezone-data' and just wait until spring to see if there is a problem? Here is the procedure I used last spring (you'll need to set the TIMEZONE according to your location: (1) Sync. (perhaps not required if portage is fairly up to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 17:29 -0500, Eric Martin wrote: Why copy? when stuff gets updated you'll have to copy again. I'd suggest making a symlink. Also, I see the timestamps and sizes are the same, but are the md5's the same? If not, these aren't the same file. /random longshot suggestion

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread Eric Martin
James wrote: Shawn Haggett podge at podgeweb.com writes: In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings: CLOCK=local TIMEZONE=America/New_York CLOCK_SYSTOHC=yes Is the /etc/localtime file correct? i.e.: $ cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread Roger Mason
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any other ideas? Maybe I need to 'reemerge' something? timezone-data? Cheers, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread James
Albert Hopkins marduk at letterboxes.org writes: /etc/init.d/clock is run pretty early in the init process; before all filesystems in /etc/fstab are mounted. If /usr/share/zoneinfo is on a filesystem that is not mounted when /etc/init.d/clock is run then it will fail and ugly things will

[gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread James
Vaeth vaeth at mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de writes: Only if you run CLOCK=UTC the shift is guaranteed to work in any case (of course, unless another program like windows interferes). Well 'local' did not work, so I'm going to set it to UTC and see what happens in the spring. James --

[gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread Teng Wang
I suggest you install ntpd, which will sync time with ntp server. And I dont think set CLOCK=UTC is a good idea. If you are using WINXP, it will change your clock to local always. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-07 Thread James
Shawn Haggett podge at podgeweb.com writes: In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings: CLOCK=local TIMEZONE=America/New_York CLOCK_SYSTOHC=yes Is the /etc/localtime file correct? i.e.: $ cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime -rw-r--r-- 1 root root

[gentoo-user] Re: daylight savings time [Slightly OT]

2007-03-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-03-02, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else having trouble with the format (^M's) in Ennis' email? Yea, his posting looks pretty much like the dog's breakfast inside slrn. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Oh, I get it!! The

[gentoo-user] Re: daylight savings time [Slightly OT]

2007-03-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-03-02, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 10:12 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: se having trouble with the format (^M's) in Ennis' email? nope. maybe it's due to top-posting snicker. no just kidding, but isn't that indicative of a NL/CR-LF difference between