Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-11 Thread Fbsd8
Ben Cottrell wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 19:18, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: What is really needed is for the tzsetup program to state which east coast selections have day light saving included. Maybe a pr is in order. Nope, you pretty conclusively proved that you're using the right

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-11 Thread Noel
On 3/11/2013 7:49 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: Even though the system is now on DST the date command still displays EDT. Does the date command ever show DST? EDT = Eastern Daylight Time timezone not to be confused with EST = Eastern Standard Time timezone not to be confused with DST = daylight savings

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-11 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2013, Mar 11, at 4:49, Fbsd8 wrote: Even though the system is now on DST the date command still displays EDT. Does the date command ever show DST? EST = Eastern Standard Time EDT = Eastern Daylight Savings Time EDT = Daylight Savings. Your date command is showing DST.

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-11 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:18:23 -0500 Noel articulated: On 3/11/2013 7:49 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: Even though the system is now on DST the date command still displays EDT. Does the date command ever show DST? EDT = Eastern Daylight Time timezone not to be confused with EST = Eastern Standard

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 08:49:45AM -0400, Fbsd8 wrote: Ran this little test. Last night before turning off my system I used the date command to set the date to 3/9 with the correct DST. This morning when I turned on my system the time had advanced by one hour. So this proves that the

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-11 Thread Fbsd8
Jerry wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:18:23 -0500 Noel articulated: On 3/11/2013 7:49 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: Even though the system is now on DST the date command still displays EDT. Does the date command ever show DST? EDT = Eastern Daylight Time timezone not to be confused with EST = Eastern

day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Fbsd8
day light saving time happened early sunday morning and the time shown by the date command is still one hour behind. I just did a clean 9.1 install from cdrom and selected the correct time zone for my location. I don't see any entry for daylight saving time in tzsetup I though the EDT had

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Ben Cottrell
On Mar 10, 2013, at 10:37, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: day light saving time happened early sunday morning and the time shown by the date command is still one hour behind. I just did a clean 9.1 install from cdrom and selected the correct time zone for my location. The DST change

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread John Levine
day light saving time happened early sunday morning and the time shown by the date command is still one hour behind. I just did a clean 9.1 install from cdrom and selected the correct time zone for my location. I don't see any entry for daylight saving time in tzsetup I though the EDT had

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Fbsd8
Ben Cottrell wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 10:37, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: day light saving time happened early sunday morning and the time shown by the date command is still one hour behind. I just did a clean 9.1 install from cdrom and selected the correct time zone for my location.

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Ben Cottrell
On Mar 10, 2013, at 14:50, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: # /root find /usr/share/zoneinfo -type f -print | xargs md5 | grep `md5 -q /etc /localtime` MD5 (/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York) = e4ca381035a34b7a852184cc0dd89baa That's really, really odd. I'm confused. If you run date

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Fbsd8
Ben Cottrell wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 14:50, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: # /root find /usr/share/zoneinfo -type f -print | xargs md5 | grep `md5 -q /etc /localtime` MD5 (/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York) = e4ca381035a34b7a852184cc0dd89baa That's really, really odd. I'm confused.

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013, Fbsd8 wrote: date command shows Sun Mar 10 16:50:33 EDT 2013 Very odd that your clock would be off by *two* hours. The real question is does New York State have day light saving time? Yes, it does. I lived there for many years. -- Chris Hill

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org writes: On Sun, 10 Mar 2013, Fbsd8 wrote: date command shows Sun Mar 10 16:50:33 EDT 2013 Very odd that your clock would be off by *two* hours. Yep. The next test is to check the clock in GMT. I expect it to be off, which means that the timezone rules are

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Fbsd8
Lowell Gilbert wrote: The next test is to check the clock in GMT. I expect it to be off, which means that the timezone rules are not the problem. If this is not the case, the diagnosis gets more interesting. And how do you purpose I check the clock in GMT?

Re: [Bulk] Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:42:52 -0400 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: The next test is to check the clock in GMT. I expect it to be off, which means that the timezone rules are not the problem. If this is not the case, the diagnosis gets more interesting.

Re: [Bulk] Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Fbsd8
Mike Jeays wrote: On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:42:52 -0400 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: The next test is to check the clock in GMT. I expect it to be off, which means that the timezone rules are not the problem. If this is not the case, the diagnosis gets more

Re: [Bulk] Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Ben Cottrell
On Mar 10, 2013, at 19:18, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: What is really needed is for the tzsetup program to state which east coast selections have day light saving included. Maybe a pr is in order. Nope, you pretty conclusively proved that you're using the right time zone setting. Trust