jens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your reply Chris. Ok, I confess, I stuck an extra 'n' in there > .... me bad.
Why, oh why, oh why, did you email me as well as replying here? If someone answers your post then surely it's obvious they're reading the newsgroup/mailing list, so you don't need to email them directly as well. Please stop that nasty practice! For the benefit of future googlers (or whatever), here's a summary of the ensuing email discussion: > The above commands all show correctly. I guess what I am trying to say is > that if I just enter 'date' I get UTC time which is correct since my > system 'thinks' it's on UTC even though I entered time in PST. Now if I go > to configure date & time under KDE, the current time zone indicates UTC > which is what the computer thinks it is. I can change it to > America/Vancouver and apply that change and the current time zone shows > PST - everything is still peachy. When I exit the date & time adjustment > window and then re-enter it, we are magically back to UTC (rather than PST). > In previous versions of Debian, this was remembered correctly. [ I suggested that this might be a bug, which jens later confirmed. ] > On a different note, I have always entered local time into the hardware > clock and things have always run well. I also use local time on a server > box I have running. Why would i want to have the BIOS show UTC ? It would > seem to me that it really makes no difference as long as the computer > knows what time zone is being used. Am I missing something here ? Yes. Unless you configure you BIOS clock to run as UTC, the daylight savings time switch won't happen automatically. This is because Debian assumes "another OS" (usually a Windows variant) will change the BIOS clock. If you're not dual-booting, I strongly recommend you to run the BIOS clock as UTC and use the timezone configuration utility to tell your system it's really running on America/Vancouver time (i.e. PST/PDT). Debian will then automatically adjust for daylight savings time at the appropriate time on the appropriate dates. [ jens later concurred with the reasoning ] Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]