Amos Shapira wrote:

And BTW - the command to set the default time zone on Debian is "tzconfig".

Bingo! Thanks for that. I could not find tzconfig using apt-cache search
but did find the man page on the web, which reveals all:

   The work done by tzconfig is actually pretty simple. It just
   copies the correct timezone installed in /usr/share/zoneinfo/
   to /etc/localtime and puts the name of the timezone into
   /etc/timezone.

   There is nothing wrong with doing this manually. However, using
   tzconfig you don't have to remember the path to the timezones.

Thus, in my case:

   cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney /etc/localtime
   echo Australia/Sydney >/etc/timezone

And finally,

   date
   Sat Jan 20 12:48:39 EST 2007

Now why the system is not aware of daylight savings is beyond me.


cheers
rickw


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