Subject: timezones FAQ
Date: Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 11:26:48AM -0400
In reply to:Seth M. Landsman
Quoting Seth M. Landsman([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Okay, here's a probable FAQ that I can't find the answer to in
> /usr/doc or the man pages or through some web surfing.
>
> As of daylight savings time, all my debian machines have been slow
> one hour because the timezone is not correct. The obvious (changing
> /etc/timezones from EST to EDT) does not solve the problem and the date is
> still shown as EST.
>
> Any clues?
I 'had' the same problem. The only clue I had was to read the manpage
for tzconfig. It led me to look at /etc/timezone which contained
'EDT'. It also led me to see what /etc/localtime was pointing to, wonder
of wonders, /usr/share/zoneinfo/EDT. As /usr/share/zoneinfo also
contains a 'EST5EDT', I simply changed the link (/etc/localtime) from
/usr/share/zoneinfo/EDT to /usr/share/zoneinfo/EDT5EST and changed
/etc/timeone to EDT5EST, and it fixed the time.
I just wonder how I had it set worng in the first place.
isn't Linux something! All the information to fix your problems
built right in!
HTH
--
The Softwære said "Windows 95 or better", so I dumped Win95 & loaded LINUX.
I have not looked back since.
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