Re: MST7MDT timezone broken?

["Touloumtzis, Michael" <Michael.Touloumtzis@ca.com>]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 01:51:37PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote (in part):
> No problems here, either, using up-to-date potato with libc6 2.1.3-7.

Same libc6 as my system, which was stuck in EST.

> I haven't seen it documented, but from experience, I believe the
> daylight saving change is only done if the hardware clock is set to
> GMT (UTC=yes in /etc/default/rcS). 

Not sure about this, but in any case my clock is set to GMT and UTC=yes
in rcS, so this shouldn't have been the cause of the problem.

> For those who complained about cron being off, see man (8)cron: ...

Good point.  That's working as designed.

Bob, you seem to have a system much like mine, in the same time zone.
Can you tell me:

1. are you running with EST5EDT?

2. if so, what is the file size for /etc/localtime?

I've found multiple EST5EDT on the system, all from libc6:
	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

This is the one that tzconfig installs, and did not work on April 3:
libc6: /usr/share/zoneinfo/SystemV/EST5EDT
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1428 Mar  7 14:17 /usr/share/zoneinfo/SystemV/EST5EDT

This is the one I manually copied to /etc/localtime, and which _did_ work:
libc6: /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT
-rw-r--r-- 4 root root 1250 Mar  7 14:17 /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT

Can you see the difference between your system and mine?

Thanks! - MikeT

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