Re: Night mare to set day light savings time
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:26 pm, Geoff Thurman wrote:
> 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
I see from the other replies that it should be tzconfig. My apologies. I
tried 'apropos timezone' to jog my memory and that one didn't come up.
My bad.
Geoff
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