Re: [Astlinux-users] Timezones

2011-05-11 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
Graham, Take a look at this link: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=60 It indicates there is no daylight savings time for Casablanca after July 2011 through 2019, which indicates only "WET0" *is* correct for /etc/TZ after July of this year. Your TZ_TIMEZONE creation for Afr

Re: [Astlinux-users] Timezones

2011-05-11 Thread Graham S. Jarvis
This is getting interesting ;-) Morocco doesn't use Lisbon time. After spending all morning looking at zic and the files at ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub I have compiled a new Africa/Casablanca file. Then I decided to look at what is on my PC. It looks like the dst values are correct on my Ubunut

Re: [Astlinux-users] Timezones

2011-05-10 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
Hi Graham, This timezone stuff normally just works, but there appears to be a problem with the Africa/Casablanca zoneinfo file. A little background... The timezone files are in "/usr/share/zoneinfo/" directory tree. For example: -- # ls -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin -rw-r--r--1 roo

Re: [Astlinux-users] Timezones

2011-05-10 Thread Graham S. Jarvis
Thanks Lonnie, 'thought so. I'm actually building a system for Africa/Casablanca but this file didn't work because it doesn't have the dst changes for summertime. So I used WET which seems to set the time OK - even if not on the status page of the GUI (see my other post). BUT, it doesn't have the

Re: [Astlinux-users] Timezones

2011-05-10 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
On May 10, 2011, at 3:50 AM, Graham S. Jarvis wrote: > Hello all, > > Under the Network Tab of the GUI there are number of Timezones listed. > Where does this list come from? > How do I change this list? You can't, but I made an effort to cover all timezones with major cities around the world.

[Astlinux-users] Timezones

2011-05-10 Thread Graham S. Jarvis
Hello all, Under the Network Tab of the GUI there are number of Timezones listed. Where does this list come from? How do I change this list? Is there really a relationship between the Timezone and the choice of NTP server? I thought the NTP server is chosen based on it's closeness simply so that