Hi help, you folk have done this: This is relevant ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On tigger I modified the zonefile for Perth. On some of my customers machines I accepted suse (yast) updates for zone file. I still need to find if and how ubuntu has updates, else I'll use my own one.
mine ... [tigger] /home/jam [60]% zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth |grep 2006 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth Sat Dec 2 17:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Dec 3 01:59:59 2006 WST isdst=0 gmtoff=28800 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth Sat Dec 2 18:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Dec 3 03:00:00 2006 WST isdst=1 gmtoff=32400 suse's ... [server] /home/jam [850]% /usr/sbin/zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth |grep 2006 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth Sat Dec 2 17:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Dec 3 01:59:59 2006 WST isdst=0 gmtoff=28800 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth Sat Dec 2 18:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Dec 3 03:00:00 2006 WST isdst=1 gmtoff=32400 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So this morning I checked times and NOTHING had happend, time was exactly as before. I do not understand. I thought I may have screwed up my zonefile, but I expected suse's update to work. Any suggestions ... I have on my www page times for london and maryland they DO track their daylight saving times. The global system DOES work AND Perth is NOT correct. Also if I change date to correct Perth time the rest of the world is wrong. I'm utterly confused ... James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
