This is all OLD news (after i spent LAST night fixing it and advising EBAY
they had their wrong time for Australia too - which they haven't fixed yet
and no doubt people are missing out on bidding!)
http://wpram.com/log/2006/03/04/commonwealth-games-daylight-saving/
Solves all your problems on ALL platforms with simple methods.
Enjoy.
JAN, as to the Set top box thing - I posted a message about time on set to
boxes to this list some time ago relating to my experience. I'm so
FRUSTRATED because some networks broadcast UTC, others local time and
others non daylight saving time. Good luck :)
At 11:02 AM 26/03/2006, Howard Lowndes wrote:
FYI, I have submitted a bug report to the Fedora project
Howard Lowndes wrote:
Craig Sanders wrote:
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 08:58:32AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
Craig Sanders wrote:
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 08:26:22AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
This gets weirder.
My original comments were made against my production systems which
are running Fedora Core 4. My test environment running Fedora Core 5
gets it right.
there's something wrong with your FC4 systems, then.
OK, smarty, so where is FC 4 getting its data from if not from the
hey, you were the one who said it was "weird" instead of just accepting the
obvious.
tzdata files, and I have demonstrated that they are correct...it knew
to change the clock, but how...?
no idea. something weird you've done to the config, perhaps? or, more
likely, something weird in FC4 which has been fixed in FC5.
some things to check:
1. your TZ environment variable. if it's set, try clearing it (with
unset, not by making it equal to "" which would be equivalent to setting
it to "UTC"). if it's set to something incorrect, then set it to the
right timezone name.
...not set
2. is /etc/localtime pointing to the right timezone file? e.g. on my
system, it is a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Melbourne
...now you're cooking...well done...it's a file (and an old one), not a
symlink. That's probably a hangover from when it was running FC3 or
even FC2 - no, I'm wrong there - it appears to be a generic fault with
Fedora Core, and is still perpetuated in FC5 - the /etc/localtime file is
a copy from the original in /usr/share/zoneinfo instead of being a link,
hard or soft.
# ll /etc/localtime
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 785 Dec 12 2004 /etc/localtime
3. reformat and install debian. you know you want to :-)
...I'm forget you made that threat :)
craig
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