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 : 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. 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. kepler:~ $ cat /etc/timezone US/Central kepler:~ $ date Tue Jun 16 13:27:25 CDT 1998 kepler:~ $ date --utc Tue Jun 16 18:27:29 UTC 1998 kepler:~ $ ps awx | grep xntp 279 ? S 0:01 /usr/sbin/xntpd Where's the problem? I'm confused. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) [ package info ] kepler:~ $ dpkg -l timezones Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii timezones 2.0.7pre1-4 Time zone data files and utilities. kepler:~ $ dpkg -l timezone Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ pn timezone <none> (no description available) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]