Re: daylight savings time

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer@icfo.es>]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:01:34 -0400, Marty Landman wrote:

[...]

> Here's what I tried, but the date is still showing an hour too 
> early... help please.
> 
> 
> marty@UNCLELEO:~$ sudo apt-get update
> [snip]
> Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Release
> Get:1 ftp://ftp.nerim.net woody/main Packages
> Err ftp://ftp.nerim.net woody/main Packages
>   Unable to fetch file, server said 'Can't open 
> /debian-marillat/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such 
> file or directory  ' [IP: 62.4.17.14 21]
> Get:2 ftp://ftp.nerim.net woody/main Release
> Ign ftp://ftp.nerim.net woody/main Release
> Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages
> [snip]
> Failed to fetch 
> ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages 
> Unable to fetch file, server said 'Can't open 
> /debian-marillat/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such 
> file or directory  ' [IP: 62.4.17.14 21]
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.nerim.net woody/main 
> Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nerim.net_debian-marillat_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or 
> old ones used instead.
> marty@UNCLELEO:~$ sudo tzselect

[...]

>         United States
>         Eastern Time
> 
> Therefore TZ='America/New_York' will be used.
> Local time is now:      Wed Mar 14 18:02:57 EST 2007.
> Universal Time is now:  Wed Mar 14 23:02:57 UTC 2007.

You have to run "apt-get upgrade" to actually get the package(s) with
the corrected timezone data. ("update" only updates the list of
available packages but it does not upgrade anything on your system.)

After you do this, run

zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007

and check the dates. Report back if you still do not see March 11 and
November 4. Also check if the date command shows "EDT" instead of "EST"
after you upgrade. (It should also show the correct time, of course.)

P.S. You can remove the outdated "ftp.nerim.net" line from your
     /etc/apt/sources.list to get rid of that error message. Marillat's
     packages are now at www.debian-multimedia.org. (This is completely
     unrelated to your current timezone problem.)

-- 
Regards,
          Florian