On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Simon Males wrote:
Make sure your /etc/timezone is actually set to Australia/Sydney. One of my
machines did the wrong thing because it was set to 'User defined' --
perhaps
the result of an errant upgrade? I've certainly not set it myself. Anyway,
that might be the problem... sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
Same happened to me this morning on my Debian Lenny desktop. On boot I sync
with time.optusnet.com.au, which brought me back an hour. Then I used GNOME's
gui magic time zone selecter to actually set Australia/Sydney.
Whatever happened to doing:
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
Getting the latest tzdata file and running zic/zdump on it?!
Guess that is what UNIX admins do.....
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