Re: [SLUG] debootstrap leaves me with UTC not LMT

2007-02-10 Thread Rick Welykochy
Amos Shapira wrote: On 20/01/07, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And finally, date Sat Jan 20 12:48:39 EST 2007 Now why the system is not aware of daylight savings is beyond me. I mention the above since I presume that if daylight savings is active (as it is nowadays) the

Re: [SLUG] debootstrap leaves me with UTC not LMT

2007-01-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 20/01/07, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: > And BTW - the command to set the default time zone on Debian is "tzconfig". And finally, date Sat Jan 20 12:48:39 EST 2007 Now why the system is not aware of daylight savings is beyond me. tzconfig is part

Re: [SLUG] debootstrap leaves me with UTC not LMT

2007-01-19 Thread Rick Welykochy
Amos Shapira wrote: And BTW - the command to set the default time zone on Debian is "tzconfig". Bingo! Thanks for that. I could not find tzconfig using apt-cache search but did find the man page on the web, which reveals all: The work done by tzconfig is actually pretty simple. It just

Re: [SLUG] debootstrap leaves me with UTC not LMT

2007-01-19 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/01/07, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I thought the file stamps where always recorded as UTC. And the system would change the time for the TZ And you were right - "Timezone" has a meaning only in the context of the user who wants to read the time. If a file was changed when the

Re: [SLUG] debootstrap leaves me with UTC not LMT

2007-01-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:12:36PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:09:39PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:03:42PM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: > > > First off, I must say, deboostrap is fantastico! I have a linux-vserver > > > partition using about 130

Re: [SLUG] debootstrap leaves me with UTC not LMT

2007-01-18 Thread Rick Welykochy
Alex Samad wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:09:39PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:03:42PM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: First off, I must say, deboostrap is fantastico! I have a linux-vserver partition using about 130 MB for the base install and only 5 processes running

Re: [SLUG] debootstrap leaves me with UTC not LMT

2007-01-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:09:39PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:03:42PM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: > > First off, I must say, deboostrap is fantastico! I have a linux-vserver > > partition using about 130 MB for the base install and only 5 processes > > running! Can you g

Re: [SLUG] debootstrap leaves me with UTC not LMT

2007-01-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:03:42PM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: > First off, I must say, deboostrap is fantastico! I have a linux-vserver > partition using about 130 MB for the base install and only 5 processes > running! Can you get much leaner than that for a server? > > question: the system as

[SLUG] debootstrap leaves me with UTC not LMT

2007-01-18 Thread Rick Welykochy
First off, I must say, deboostrap is fantastico! I have a linux-vserver partition using about 130 MB for the base install and only 5 processes running! Can you get much leaner than that for a server? question: the system as installed by debootstrap left me with a system clock configured to show U