Hi,
On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Jim Osborn wrote:
> Actually, one of my machines sprang, and the other didn't. This is the
> first time I've had Linux fail to change on DST day, so I'm very
> surprised. Both running SuSE 5.3.
>
> Can someone tell me where the DST change is controlled? I must have
> something different between the two machines, but nothing, I thought,
> in the clock department. FWIW, the machine that failed to spring has
> been running various Slackware installations for six years. I
> upgraded to SuSE last fall, just after the DST change. This the first
> time it hasn't changed with DST.
This is controlled via variables in /etc/rc.config:
#
# Set to "-u" if your system clock is set to GMT, otherwise "".
#
GMT="-u"
#
# Timezone (e.g. MET)
# (this will set /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime)
#
TIMEZONE="MET"
AFAIK, the spring forward depends on the selected timezone.
Bye,
LenZ
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