On 20/01/07, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Amos Shapira wrote:
> And BTW - the command to set the default time zone on Debian is
"tzconfig".
And finally,
date
Sat Jan 20 12:48:39 EST 2007
Now why the system is not aware of daylight savings is beyond me.
tzconfig is part of libc6 (/usr/sbin/tzconfig, maybe this directory is not
in your regular user's path).
Why do you think it doesn't know about DST? Did it show the above output
when the correct time was "13:48:39"? Have you compared its UTC time? Maybe
you should reset the time because your last date setting was done using the
wrong timezone? (I know I said that the system uses UTC "inside", but for
user convenience you are usually asked for time in your "current zone" so
the translation to UTC could be wrong if you gave Sydney's "local time" when
the system actually interpreted it as "LMT time").
I don't remember your first post but which OS exactly is it?
On my Debian Etch tzdata (the package which contains the zoneinfo files) is
version 2006p-1 and "date" also uses "EST" today.
Cheers,
--Amos
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