Re: daylight savings time aint savin' ME time
not sure exactly what happened on your system, but the best thing to do is
probably not to set your timezone to EDT, but tell your box what location
it's in and it will work out the rest from there. ie, my laptop is set to
Europe/London, it knows the daylight savings rules for my location, I
don't have to touch it unless I travel.
regards,
-thomas
On Sun, 23 May 1999, Michael Stenner wrote:
> Thanks, guys. That worked. But I'm still confused. Why is it
> necessary to use tzconfig to change my timezone from EDT to EDT? That's
> all I did, but now it behaves correctly. What does the install do
> differently?
>
> Also, It's not that I don't read docs. It just didn't occur to me that
> I needed to change the timezone -- It was right, after all :)
>
> -Michael
>
> On Sat, 22 May 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> >On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 03:40:15PM -0400, Michael Stenner wrote:
> >> Ever since Daylight savings time struck, my clock has been incorrect.
> >>
> >> I've tried setting it with hwclock --set --date="bla bla"
> >> which seems to work, according to hwclock --show
> >>
> >> but when I reboot, the clocks (system AND hardware) are still wrong.
> >>
> >> I've also tried setting it in the BIOS. Again, my computer outsmarts
> >> me.
> >>
> >> Once, I used hwclock --set --date= followed by hwclock --systohw
> >> (or whichever one makes the system clock the same as the hardware clock)
> >>
> >> this did permanently change my clock (i.e. upon reboot it was still
> >> changed), but it changed it by TWO hours!!
> >>
> >> What am I doing wrong, here?
> >
> >'man tzconfig' should help.
> >
> >Bob
> >
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