Re: Timezone messed up
>>>>> "JG" == John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
JG> My computer's clock didn't adjust itself automatically with the
JG> timezone change. I am in the Central time zone in the US.
JG> There seem to be a number of various timezone programs --
JG> /usr/sbin/timezoneconfig, tzselect, etc. Which one should be
JG> used, and why are there several programs to do the same thing?
JG> Also, on other OSs, my timezone was often "CST6CDT". Here it is
JG> "US/Central" or "US/Chicago". Why the difference?
Are you sure you're set to US/Central? Today, I noticed that my
computer still thought it was CST. Checking /etc/timezone, it was set
to SystemV/CST6CDT. Changing it to US/Central made my computer
enlightened, so it noew believes it is CDT. :) (The real setting is in
/etc/timezone).
Another possibility is that your hardware clock is set to localtime,
and you rebooted after the timezone change but before anything that
wrote your hwclock. I don't think we write the hwclock back
anywhere.. Maybe somewhere in the rebooting process we should
write the correct current time back into the hwclock?
-Larry
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