Re: Problem with RMFPMS and the recent time change

2006-05-01 Thread Fargusson.Alan
, April 28, 2006 3:40 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Problem with RMFPMS and the recent time change On 4/28/06, Fargusson.Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't quite right. Windows does use GMT (it might be UTC, but I think it is GMT). The confusion comes from two things: Some

Re: Problem with RMFPMS and the recent time change

2006-04-28 Thread Fargusson.Alan
the local time from the RTC is to work around broken RTCs. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob van der Heij Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:35 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Problem with RMFPMS and the recent time change On 4

Re: Problem with RMFPMS and the recent time change

2006-04-28 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 4/28/06, Fargusson.Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't quite right. Windows does use GMT (it might be UTC, but I think it is GMT). The confusion comes from two things: Some Windows users don't set the timezone right, and this makes the hardware clock wrong. Some RTCs are broken,

Problem with RMFPMS and the recent time change

2006-04-27 Thread Wiggins, Mark
When we set the clocks ahead a couple of weeks ago, we noticed that each Linux image using rmfpms to report to the Performance Toolkit was reporting the wrong time. Restarting the process in Linux resolved the problem, but we'd rather not have to restart these processes on all of our images every

Re: Problem with RMFPMS and the recent time change

2006-04-27 Thread Fargusson.Alan
Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wiggins, Mark Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:07 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Problem with RMFPMS and the recent time change When we set the clocks ahead a couple of weeks ago, we noticed that each Linux image using

Re: Problem with RMFPMS and the recent time change

2006-04-27 Thread Wiggins, Mark
savings time is automatic. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wiggins, Mark Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:07 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Problem with RMFPMS and the recent time change When we set the clocks ahead a couple of weeks ago

Re: Problem with RMFPMS and the recent time change

2006-04-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 04/27/2006 at 11:47 AST, Wiggins, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My hardware clock is set to UTC (USA/Eastern). Which? UTC is not USA/Eastern. UTC is GMT. The h/w clock should be set to UTC/GMT+0. Use timezones in the operating systems to get the correct local time. Not doing

Re: Problem with RMFPMS and the recent time change

2006-04-27 Thread Wiggins, Mark
Altmark Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 12:27 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Problem with RMFPMS and the recent time change On Thursday, 04/27/2006 at 11:47 AST, Wiggins, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My hardware clock is set to UTC (USA/Eastern). Which? UTC is not USA/Eastern. UTC

Re: Problem with RMFPMS and the recent time change

2006-04-27 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 4/27/06, Wiggins, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alright, when I go to YaST - Clock and Time Zone Configuration, I see Hardware clock set to UTC, I see Region = USA and Time Zone = Eastern. Are we talking about a different hardware clock here? That's the way to do it (and I am not sure this

Re: Problem with RMFPMS and the recent time change

2006-04-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 04/27/2006 at 11:16 ZE2, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/27/06, Wiggins, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alright, when I go to YaST - Clock and Time Zone Configuration, I see Hardware clock set to UTC, I see Region = USA and Time Zone = Eastern. Are we talking

Re: Problem with RMFPMS and the recent time change

2006-04-27 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 4/28/06, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it's important to remember that the TOD doesn't have an intrinsic timezone. Linux has been told to *assume* the TOD is set to UTC, and since a virtual TOD is set from the LPAR TOD, the machine must be set to UTC. Note that the Linux