Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The boot disks should not offer confusing options. They should offer > > the working one (CST6CDT for me) and no non-working ones. The same > > goes for tzconfig. Otherwise, anybody using xntp or something similar > > will always get incorrect times. > > > I'm sorry to disapoint you, but US/Central is a perfectly valid timezone. > It is only intended for those parts of the central US where Daylight > Savings Time is not practiced. You will notice that there are equivalet > settings for the other timezones as well.
Yes. But almost all of the US does use DST. I believe the sole exception is a few counties in Indiana. Therefore it does indeed seem to be broken. I'm not sure if Indiana is in Central or Eastern, but I can say for sure that Mountain and Pacific zones have no place like that -- they all switch for DST. Neither the boot disks nor tzconfig make this distinction clear, although it would be trivial to do so, I think. Further, I think that the "System V" options should be the default instead of the other ones. > While I admit that setting your timezone is not always obvious. Once you > figure out the correct setting, it never changes, as long as you don't > move very far. Yes, but here I've been running for over half a year with the wrong timezone because nobody ever told me it's wrong. US/Central looks perfect in the setup -- I can imagine people going "What is this CST6CDT thing?" In both tzconfig and the boot disks, one is presented with US/Central before CST6CDT. I don't know if it still does this, but older versions would ask you this after you booted up the first time -- they'd actually ask for you to punch in your geographical region. To that question, you'd answer US instead of CST6CDT. > If we supplied a whole book on the subject there would still be confused > people. On the other hand, if you can come up with an explanation that is > short and clear, I will be happy to incorporate it into the tzconfig > script. I'd say something like: "If your time changes for daylight savings time, use these options. Otherwise, use these." Something needs to be done on the bootdisks, too. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Visit the Air Capitol Linux Users Group on the web at http://www.aclug.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]