Re: Timezone Problem
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> I posted this to the list not too long ago, and the only response was I
> got was a message saying "That's what you get for running unstable
> distributions." As stated in my original message, the problem began with
> hamm. The reason I was trying the unstable distributions was to attempt to
> clear up the problem. After seeing that it did not help, I went back to
> hamm. This message is being sent on a hamm system, and, as you can see, it
> contains an invalid timezone stamp. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> > What's wrong with the Debian timezones? I never had any problems with bo
> > (that I remember), but when I upgraded to hamm, then slink, and now
> > potato, something's wrong with the timezone. I have my system set up so
> > that the system time is GMT, but the local time is Central. /etc/timezone
> > contains one line:
> > CST6CDT
> >
> > The above looks correct, because I am in Central and we have Daylight
> > Savings Time in the summer. And Central is 6 hours east of GMT, so it all
> > looks good. *However*, on outgoing mail (such as this message), it says
> > "-0600 (EST)". This is not correct. I am not in Eastern, and if I were,
> > that would be -0500. I checked in /usr/doc/timezone, but it's just glibc
> > info. Not very useful. I checked some of the headers on this list, and I
> > am not the only one experiencing this problem. What's up?
> >
>
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My /etc/timezone has the one line:
US/Central
I don't know if that makes a difference.
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