Re: cron and timezones
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 02:16:17PM -0700, brian moore wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:48:38PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:36:21PM -0700, brian moore wrote:
> > >
> > > I'll assume you're in the UK: You are mistaken in believing your time
> > > zone is set correctly if you have set it for BST. You're not on BST at
> > > all.
> >
> > Um, I didn't *set* it for BST, I set it for London:
> >
> > Your default time zone is set to 'Europe/London'.
> > Local time is now: Mon Oct 25 21:48:09 BST 1999.
> > Universal Time is now: Mon Oct 25 20:48:09 UTC 1999.
>
> According to my TZ files, the above is correct: you're still an hour
> off UTC. (This is also what zdump says on Solaris.)
Right. And this is what I should be (looking at the date header in
my emails confirms it too).
> > So what should I be doing?
>
> I'm confused as to what the problem is then.
Cron's knackered.
> Is it not 10:15pm or so there?
Yep, it's now 10:23pm.
> It sure looks like you're not supposed to be on UTC yet: even the BBC
> pages show "Monday, October 25, 1999 Published at 20:45 GMT 21:45 UK"
> which makes it clear to me that your local time -should- be an hour
> later than UTC.
Apparently so. I'm flummoxed as to what to do now. CCing back to
debian-user.
> Of course vi is God's editor. If He used Emacs, He'd still be
> waiting for it to load on the seventh day.
Heh :)
Thanks,
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alisdair mcdiarmid alisdair@wasters.org
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