Re: timezones FAQ

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@ix.netcom.com>]

	Subject: timezones FAQ
	Date: Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 11:26:48AM -0400

In reply to:Seth M. Landsman

Quoting Seth M. Landsman(seth@job.cs.brandeis.edu):
> 	Okay, here's a probable FAQ that I can't find the answer to in
> /usr/doc or the man pages or through some web surfing.  
> 
> 	As of daylight savings time, all my debian machines have been slow
> one hour because the timezone is not correct.  The obvious (changing
> /etc/timezones from EST to EDT) does not solve the problem and the date is
> still shown as EST.
> 
> 	Any clues?

I 'had' the same problem.  The only clue I had was to read the manpage
for tzconfig.  It led me to look at /etc/timezone which contained
'EDT'.  It also led me to see what /etc/localtime was pointing to, wonder
of wonders, /usr/share/zoneinfo/EDT.  As /usr/share/zoneinfo also
contains a 'EST5EDT', I simply changed the link (/etc/localtime) from 
/usr/share/zoneinfo/EDT to /usr/share/zoneinfo/EDT5EST and changed
/etc/timeone to EDT5EST, and it fixed the time.

 I just wonder how I had it set worng in the first place.

 isn't Linux something!  All the information to fix your problems
built right in!

HTH

-- 
The Softwære said "Windows 95 or better", so I dumped Win95 & loaded LINUX.
I have not looked back since.
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Wayne T. Topa <wtopa@ix.netcom.com>