Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 02:00:41PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Sorry to have stayed out of this but I have been busy...
>
> Bottom line...tzconfig is broken.
>
> 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.
I'm pretty sure you are mistaken, Dale. I seriously doubt that there
is anything wrong with the timezone files or tzconfig. I no longer
have the original problem report on hand, but I suspect the problem
was caused by either an incorrectly set CMOS clock or incorrect
use/non-use of the hwclock -u option in /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh.
FYI, the US/{Eastern,Central,Mountain,Pacific} timezones do use DST
and the US/{Arizona,East-Indiana,Hawaii} timezones don't. I'm not
sure about the others, but I'd bet that they are correct also.
David
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