Bug#48866: Time-Zone still wrong
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 11:14:46PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Using boot-floppies 2.2.4, I still find that when I say my system clock is
> NOT set to GMT, I am still getting the reported time adjusted. For
> example, when it's 21:15 in my time zone (Pacific) the command date returns
> 13.15. This would be the right answer if I had answered YES.
>
> Running on i386.
>
> I thought the 2.4 release was supposed to fix this. Did it just not make
> the cutoff?
No, the bug is still there. At least it was last time I checked.
It shouldn't be that hard to fix. If the user says YES, (their clock is set to
GMT), do nothing. If the user says NO, (their clock is not set to GMT), then change
the line in '/target/etc/default/rcS' that governs this aspect.
UTC=yes
ie: change it from 'UTC=yes' to 'UTC=no'
Have a look at the description in /etc/default/rcS. It says:
# Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if not.
Hmmm, looking at the code in tzconfig.c, it's trying to do the right thing but it
doesn't work for dome reason :-(
Greg
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