Re: daylight savings time problem with potato?
Re potato seeming not to be handling EST correctly, I'm still confused,
but I have it working okay now (with some manual intervention) and have
more info ...
I noticed that when I use tzconfig to set timezone to EST5EDT it copies
file EST5EDT to /etc/localtime (rather than creating a link, as the doc
states). That makes it a little hard to know which file is being used,
as there are multiple such files:
(all are perm -rw-r--r--, owner root:root, and dated Mar 7 14:17)
... 4 ... 1250 ... /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT
... 1 ... 1428 ... /usr/share/zoneinfo/SystemV/EST5EDT
... 3 ... 1250 ... /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/EST5EDT
... 1 ... 1428 ... /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/SystemV/EST5EDT
... 3 ... 1426 ... /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/EST5EDT
... 1 ... 1604 ... /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/SystemV/EST5EDT
Based on file size and diff'ing, tzconfig copies
/usr/share/zoneinfo/SystemV/EST5EDT. As an experiment I manually copied
/usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT instead. The system now correctly reports:
$ date
Mon Apr 3 13:13:45 EDT 2000
Anyone know what's going on? I only used tzconfig to set to EST5EDT
because I saw the problem; it was already set to that timezone. FYI,
the system was not rebooted (uptime since last November), and it has
always handled the EST->EDT and EDT->EST transitions fine in the past
(running slink).
I have not messed with any of these files manually, and they all seem
to be coming from the same package:
$ dpkg -S EST5EDT
libc6: /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/EST5EDT
libc6: /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/SystemV/EST5EDT
libc6: /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT
libc6: /usr/share/zoneinfo/SystemV/EST5EDT
libc6: /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/EST5EDT
libc6: /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/SystemV/EST5EDT
$ dpkg -S tzconfig
libc6: /usr/share/man/man1/tzconfig.1.gz
libc6: /usr/sbin/tzconfig
Ideas? Thanks!
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 09:43:11AM -0500, Touloumtzis, Michael wrote:
> Arriving at work this morning I notice that my Debian box (running
> up-to-date potato) still thinks it's standard time. A similarly
> configured RedHat 6.0 box reports daylight savings time.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> # date
> Mon Apr 3 09:38:53 EST 2000
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> # cat /etc/timezone
> SystemV/EST5EDT
>
> # hwclock --show
> Mon Apr 3 14:38:54 2000 -1.001596 seconds
>
> # grep ^UTC /etc/default/rcS
> UTC=yes
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Ingres Product Development mailto:Michael.Touloumtzis@ca.com
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