Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-22 Thread John Goerzen
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is very strange, as US/Central and CST6CDT are both links to Americal/Chicago in the 2.0.7 version that I am building for release today. The 2.0.7pre3 (which I have currently installed) seems to have these as separate files. Which version was

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-22 Thread John Goerzen
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : It didn't work here. I use xntp3 to sync my clock, and it would : always get set to Eastern time until I changed to CST6CDT. After : making that change, it now gives results like yours. Ok, fair enough. I'm assuming you have the same program

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My clock is supposedly set to UTC. When I originally installed, it wasn't, and there was no documentation for changing it, but I figured that I needed to add a -u to the appropriate init script. Here then is

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What exactly makes you say that the central timezone doesn't deal with DST? If you mean US/Central I will have to disagree with you. :) It works fine here. It didn't work here. I use xntp3 to sync my clock, and it would always get set to Eastern

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
OK then, just to recap -- US/Central was off by an hour (giving me Eastern instead of Central time when syncing with xntp3). Here is my etc/init.d/hwclock.sh: GMT=-u # # Set and adjust the CMOS clock. # if [ ! -f /etc/adjtime ] then echo 0.0 0 0.0 /etc/adjtime fi if [ -x

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 19 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: : Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : What exactly makes you say that the central timezone doesn't deal with : DST? If you mean US/Central I will have to disagree with you. :) It : works fine here. : : It didn't work here. I use xntp3 to sync

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: On 19 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: : Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : What exactly makes you say that the central timezone doesn't deal with : DST? If you mean US/Central I will have to disagree with you. :) It : works fine

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 09:57:22PM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote: I found the entire kernel/hw clock issue quite confusing. (eg , when to use the uct flag ) The man pages help a little. A clock howto would be quite helpful. Add useful info to /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Clock.gz and sent it to

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: This is very strange, as US/Central and CST6CDT are both links to Americal/Chicago in the 2.0.7 version that I am building for release today. The 2.0.7pre3 (which I have currently installed) seems to have these as separate files. Likewise

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: This is very strange, as US/Central and CST6CDT are both links to Americal/Chicago in the 2.0.7 version that I am building for release today. The 2.0.7pre3 (which I have currently installed) seems to

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: Where did you get a pre4? I don't think I released one... Oops, I meant pre1-4. Sorry about that. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread John Goerzen
Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 07:54:42AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: 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. OK. So, which

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread David Engel
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 02:00:41PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: 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

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 16 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 07:54:42AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: I'd say something like: If your time changes for daylight savings time, use these options. Otherwise, use these. Something needs to be

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
DS == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DS We are working on a report of failure in US/central WRT Daylight DS Savings Time, right? DS There is one variable we haven't nailed down yet. The hardware DS clock can be set either to local time or GMT (UTC). As I DS remember, the

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread G John Lapeyre
I found the entire kernel/hw clock issue quite confusing. (eg , when to use the uct flag ) The man pages help a little. A clock howto would be quite helpful. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, I noticed with surprise tonight that my clock was an hour off. Investigating the matter revealed that /etc/timezone said US/Central. running /usr/sbin/tzconfig and setting it to SystemV/CST6CDT fixed the problem. However, the install program, and tzconfig, both have a problem. They do

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: Hi, I noticed with surprise tonight that my clock was an hour off. Investigating the matter revealed that /etc/timezone said US/Central. running /usr/sbin/tzconfig and setting it to SystemV/CST6CDT fixed the problem. However, the install

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread John Goerzen
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

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 07:54:42AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: 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. OK. So, which are the options for DST and which are the others?

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: Investigating the matter revealed that /etc/timezone said US/Central. running /usr/sbin/tzconfig and setting it to SystemV/CST6CDT fixed the problem. I'm sorry to disapoint you, but US/Central is a

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: : On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: : : : Hi, : : I noticed with surprise tonight that my clock was an hour off. : : Investigating the matter revealed that /etc/timezone said : US/Central. running /usr/sbin/tzconfig and setting it to :

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote: : On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: : : On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: : : Investigating the matter revealed that /etc/timezone said : US/Central. running /usr/sbin/tzconfig and setting it to : SystemV/CST6CDT fixed the

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Joel Klecker
At 05:54 -0700 1998-06-16, John Goerzen wrote: 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

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote: : On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, 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 :

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Branden Robinson
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

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
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

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Dale! Sorry to jump in (I have almost no expertise in tzconfig), but I have US/Central in timezone and date, xntp work fine for me. May be it's not broken? How should one check? Sasha. Sorry to have stayed out of this but I have been busy... Bottom line...tzconfig is broken. The

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: : Sorry to have stayed out of this but I have been busy... : : Bottom line...tzconfig is broken. That may be :) : 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 :

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: : Sorry to have stayed out of this but I have been busy... : : Bottom line...tzconfig is broken. That may be :) : If you look at the list provided under US there is an entry of : Indiana-Eastern,

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: : On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: : : : Sorry to have stayed out of this but I have been busy... : : : : Bottom line...tzconfig is broken. : : That may be :) : : : If you look at the