-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/07 04:57, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Wednesday 31 October 2007 10:33, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 10/31/07 02:11, Dan H wrote: >>> Hello list, >>> >>> it happened again (in Germany, anyway). As of Sunday, we're back >>> on winter time (CET). Except my computer ain't. And every >>> half-year I forget just what I did to set the clock right. I've >>> got the timezone set right (Europe/Berlin CET) but the clock >>> lags. Is there some accepted standard and automatic way of >>> honoring DST? Even Windows gets this right. I'm using ntpd to >>> sync my clock. Ntp itself works right -- every now and then I >>> have to erase my buggy BIOS settings, which resets the hardware >>> clock to the Nineties, but when Linux comes up the clock is >>> always correct (except that little DST issue of course). >> Automatic clock adjustment has always worked for me. >> >> What branch are you using? Etch? Sarge? >> >> What version of tzdata do you have? >> >> -- >> Ron Johnson, Jr. >> Jefferson LA USA >> > > Well, I did a few install of Etch lately, and I notice, for the time to be > adjusted automaticly, that after the install is complete, I had to run > tzconfig. This is for install either with etch only, or with dual boot. First > at the end of each install the time given by date was OK, both UTC and local > (France), but the time given by KDE was out. Having ntp running does not > ajuste the time in KDE. Which would then give wrong time when you send a > mail, say. Then I run tzconfig (which told me Europe and Paris, do you change > it?) and re-enter the time zone, and every thing was OK, and all of the box > adjusted the time automaticly for winter time.
Has tzconfig been removed in Sid? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHKFeWS9HxQb37XmcRApYeAJwOtcyjQDtSkQJjyToZ3PFrx30rtgCfdyhw doaBWbCBhuNF4JbUUbL4BbQ= =FE5j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
