Hi Mathew, take a look both to man hwclock and date. I got the same problem and i fixed it with hwclock. Since I live in italy i've a different timezone so i cannot be sure about EST or EDT, sorry.
Fabio Mathew Johnston wrote: > my timezone file contains Canada/Eastern > when i type date, it tells me that its EST, not EDT like it should (i > think) > so when I run ntpdate it gives me the time, minus 1 hour. > any ideas as to how to fix this? Thanks :) > > Mathew Johnston -- _____ ___ _ ___ ___ ___ _ _ _ _____ _____ _ _ _____ |_ _|| _|| | | _|| _|| _ || \/ | | ||_ _|| _ || | | || _ | | | | _|| |_ | _|| |_ | _ || \/ | | | | | | _ || |_ | || _ | |_| |___||___||___||___||___||_||_| |_| |_| |_| |_||___||_||_| |_| [EMAIL PROTECTED] - South European @ccess Back Bone ------------------ http://www.seabone.net/ ------------------- Fabio Massimo Di Nitto | Debian GNU/Linux Woody 2.2.16 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | running on mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Laptop AMD K6-2 400Mhz 64Mb