Re: Night mare to set day light savings time
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 9:30 pm, Jigga Man wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am pretty much a new user to debian linux and i have
> a problem setting the correct time on my system. My
> hardware clock is set to GMT and when i installed
> debian i chose the time zone correctly. only thing is
> that we follow daylight savings time and now my clock
> ( which shows up on the panel) is off by an hour. I
> trired to look up help and found that i had an option
> of using ntpdate which would query some server using
> the internet and set the time. The problem is that
> this PC is not allowed to go to the internet. and from
> what i understand there is no way that debian has the
> functionlity to incorporate daylight savings time ??
>
> Its seems like a night mare to be for the simple
> reason that windows has this capability built into it
> and debian being far better than windows lacks such a
> basic thing?? are there any apps are written to over
> come this ?
>
> desperately looking for an answer
>
> TIA
>
> Jigga
>
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There is certainly a way to do this, because I did it a week or two ago.
Sadly my mind has already let the process go. I think it might be a
case of running tzsetup, with root permissions, saying you want to
change the settings even if they already say London, and then look out
for the daylight saving time setting. If this doesn't do it, try
tzselect and follow a similar plan. It's there somewhere, honest.
Cheers,
Geoff
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