Re: Timezone messed up
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote:
> >>>>> "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).
This is kind of strange. I have my system set to EST5EDT and it
transitioned just fine this morning from EST to EDT.
Luck,
Dwarf
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