Hi, I had several problems with timezones, and for many weeks my clock was wrong because of daylight savings (even though it said it changed the clock at that time, looks like it lost this information at the first boot), and I had no time to dig into this, untill finally I just changed the BIOS clock by hand...
But I wanted to understand how does the timezones work, and I went to /usr/doc/timezones, and found the glibc docs, instead of timezone's! Well, in my system: $ date Tue Feb 17 14:09:22 PST 1998 $ date -R Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:14:47 -0800 nr# dpkg -l timezone ic timezone 7.55-2 Data files needed to set your local time My questions are: 1) Is this correct for CA (-0800, at daylight savings period)? 1) At the daylight savings dates, is timezone supposed to change the BIOS clock, or should it leave the BIOS clock unchanged, and "transform" BIOS time in PST time? Will it change automatically now, when the daylight period ends? 2) Is it better/worse/possible to have the BIOS clock set to GMT, and let timezone transforms it? In this case, how one can see the BIOS clock time? 3) should I upgrade timezone? Feel free to add more comments I did not ask about, that you might feel relevant. Thanks. -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conexware.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
