Sorry to have stayed out of this but I have been busy... Bottom line...tzconfig is broken.
If you look at the list provided under US there is an entry of Indiana-Eastern, and Arizona... as well. These should be linked to their non-DST configuration. The ones that say eastern, and central, and mountain, and pacific, should all understand daylight shaving time. (Bill, I hate daylight shavings time) The central timezone provided by tzconfig is broken, in that it clearly doesn't deal with DST correctly. I believe I have heard of this problem before. I guess it is time to look at the guts of this and figure out how to fix it. On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 08:26:41AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > 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. > > Uhmm, there is no state in the Central timezone that doesn't go on Daylight > Savings Time. > > Two states in the continental US do not go on DST -- Indiana, in the > Eastern time zone, and Arizona, in the Mountain time zone. > > This also can change on county-by-county basis. > > I think US/Central is a reasonable assumption to make for someone living in > the Central timezone. Perhaps some further clarification should be made. > > Admittedly, the best thing would be for the United States to abandon the > Luddite notion of Daylight Savings Time, but that's not something Debian > can change soon. :) > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | Murphy's Guide to Science: > Purdue University | If it's green or squirms, it's biology. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If it stinks, it's chemistry. > http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | If it doesn't work, it's physics. > Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "The Debian Linux User's Guide" _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]