Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> 
> : Sorry to have stayed out of this but I have been busy...
> : 
> : Bottom line...tzconfig is broken.
> 
> That may be :)
> 
> : If you look at the list provided under US there is an entry of
> : Indiana-Eastern, and Arizona... as well. These should be linked to their
> : non-DST configuration. The ones that say eastern, and central, and
> : mountain, and pacific, should all understand daylight shaving time. (Bill,
> : I hate daylight shavings time)
> : 
> : The central timezone provided by tzconfig is broken, in that it clearly
> : doesn't deal with DST correctly. I believe I have heard of this problem
> : before. I guess it is time to look at the guts of this and figure out how
> : to fix it.
> 
> What exactly makes you say that the central timezone doesn't deal with
> DST?  If you mean "US/Central" I will have to disagree with you. :) It
> works fine here.
> 
> kepler:~ $ cat /etc/timezone 
> US/Central
> kepler:~ $ date
> Tue Jun 16 13:27:25 CDT 1998
> kepler:~ $ date --utc
> Tue Jun 16 18:27:29 UTC 1998
> kepler:~ $ ps awx | grep xntp
>   279  ?  S    0:01 /usr/sbin/xntpd 
> 
> Where's the problem?  I'm confused.
> 
Me too ;-)

We are working on a report of failure in US/central WRT Daylight Savings
Time, right?

There is one variable we haven't nailed down yet. The hardware clock can
be set either to local time or GMT (UTC). As I remember, the failure only
happens when the clock is set to one of these two. (Memory says Local Time
is the broken one)

Your output, if I can count right (not guaranteed), indicates a 5 hour
difference from GMT, which, I think, is correct. Which way is your
hardware clock set?

Thanks,

Dwarf
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