I'm not sure what the problem you've had is, but why not just run ntpd and let someone else worry about maintaining the correct time??
Regards Brett :> -----Original Message----- :> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :> [mailto:slug-admin@;slug.org.au]On Behalf Of :> Jonathan Wheelhouse :> Sent: Tuesday, 5 November 2002 11:57 PM :> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :> Subject: [SLUG] Daylight saving didn't happen :> :> :> Hi :> :> The time shown by my computer didn't change to daylight saving last :> Saturday night. So I manually set it forward an hour :> (which has now :> forwarded UTC in the hardware clock by an hour, I guess). :> :> I'm running Debian unstable. The hardware clock is set to UTC. :> :> /etc/timezone contains :> Australia/Sydney :> :> I'm following "16.1 Setting time, time zones and Daylight :> Saving" of :> the Debian System Administration manual. It says that I :> may have old :> timezone files; libc6 contains these files. :> :> dpkg -l libc6 reveals :> ii libc6 2.3.1-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data :> :> I didn't notice any bug(s) relating to daylight saving on a quick :> perusal of the BTS. :> :> zdump -v Australia/Sydney|less reveals :> Australia/Sydney Sat Oct 26 16:00:00 2002 UTC = Sun Oct :> 27 03:00:00 2002 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600 :> Australia/Sydney Sat Mar 29 15:59:59 2003 UTC = Sun Mar :> 30 02:59:59 2003 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600 :> :> So, my computer should have changed to daylight saving but didn't. :> :> One of the reasons I noticed was that I downloaded and :> burnt knoppix :> 3.1 (a Debian based cdrom demo distribution; pretty awesome -> it :> recognised all of the machines I ran it on including a Toshiba :> laptop); knoppix set time forward 1 hour. :> :> Any ideas? :> :> Jonathan :> :> -- :> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ :> More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug :> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
