Re: MST7MDT timezone broken?
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 06:58:25AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Bruce Sass writes:
> > MDT didn't kick in over here until I manually ran tzconfig. I'm running
> > Potato, installed from bf-2.2.7 (libc6-2.1.2?), upgraded to
> > libc6-2.1.3-2.
>
> I've got 2.1.3-7 on this box.
> --
> John Hasler
> john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, WI
I also have libc6 2.1.3-7 (I was 'apt-get dist-upgrade' up-to-date
before the time-change weekend arrived). And I had the problem with
EST5EDT, though not when I experimentally switched to America/New_York.
When I then reset to EST5EDT using tzconfig the problem returned
(date reported EST and 1 hour off). On a hunch I manually copied
/usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT to /etc/localtime (instead of the version
installed by tzconfig, which based on file size and diff results seemed
to be /usr/share/zoneinfo/SystemV/EST5EDT). Then date reported the
right time zone (EDT) and time. I had to stop/start cron, etc. Then all
was well. I then tried tzconfig again (and it broke the system), and then
yet again manually fixed it. This last experiment was not to cause myself
more trouble, but just because I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
- MikeT
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