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 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. : > : Me too ;-) : : We are working on a report of failure in US/central WRT Daylight Savings : Time, right?
Correct :) : There is one variable we haven't nailed down yet. The hardware clock can : be set either to local time or GMT (UTC). As I remember, the failure only : happens when the clock is set to one of these two. (Memory says Local Time : is the broken one) Ah, I'd forgotten about that. I believe your memory is correct. : Your output, if I can count right (not guaranteed), indicates a 5 hour : difference from GMT, which, I think, is correct. Which way is your : hardware clock set? Hardware clocks here are set to UTC - I figure they're servers, up 24/7 (no dual booting to Win95 :) so UTC is the "right" decision. I will try another machine at home which iirc is set to local time. CDT is indeed UTC-5, and CST is UTC-6. So, to recap: I'm using "US/Central" timezone, with hardware clocks set to UTC, and all is well here. -- 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) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]