Re: Night mare to set day light savings time
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:58:42AM -0800, Jigga Man wrote:
> Sorry to directly send you an email but i dont know
> how to reply to the mailing list.
Most modern mail readers include a Reply-to-List option. Use this.
If that fails, hit reply and change the address to
debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Your default time zone is set to 'US/Eastern'.
> Local time is now: Thu Nov 13 11:44:48 EST 2003.
> Universal Time is now: Thu Nov 13 16:44:48 UTC 2003.
>
>
> this time is still one hour off ..its says local time
> is 11:44 when its actully 10:44 here ...
Adjust your BIOS clock an hour back. At 10:44, your BIOS should be
set to 15:44 in standard time, 16:44 in DST[1].
> i didnt find any specific option for daylight savings
> time... did i do anything worng ?
That's why you set your timezone, if you pick the right timezone,
daylight savings changeovers are automatic.
[1] Why we still have the criminally stupid concept of DST is beyond
me...http://www.standardtime.com/
- --
.''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
: :' :
`. `'` proud Debian admin and user
`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQE/tDScUzgNqloQMwcRAsLfAKCiRpu6ZTGW+rj4H99mCjr/UEUscgCeKRE3
+mbtpjOUlxZQKMoNtK1ix2k=
=ZrAo
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: