On Sunday 29 March 2009 17:07:54 Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2009-03-29_09:59:49, John Hasler wrote: > > Strong and Humble writes: > > > Just wanted to know if it is possible to specify a time zone that has > > > no winter time shift whole year? > > > > Sure. Many time zones have no "daylight savings" or "summer time". Just > > pick an appropriate one or create your own. > > > > > What I want is to stay the same time (without winter shift) whole year, > > > yet be able synchrinize my system time with a ntp-server. > > > > NTP deals exclusively in UTC. It has nothing to do with "time shift". > > > > What problem are you trying to solve? There may be a better approach. > > -- > > John Hasler > > I'm not OP, but I think I also want what, I believe, he wants, namely: > A locale that I can select that will give me text displays of the > time, and text displays of file mtimes that do not mention, or use, > summer time, ever. Is there such a wrong-thinker/outlier variation of > locale? A sort of a sub-culture locale, that isn't really an fully > accurate reflection of the dominant culture in my geographic region? > > For me, summer-time has always been something of an annoyance. With > the spread of computers in the sixties and seventies, I had hoped that > limitations of technology might kill summer-time. Instead, computer > technology has become an enabler of a feature of my culture that I do > not like. > > And let's see what OP was really asking for also.
I'm a bit lost on this. When I install Lenny I am asked when I choose a timezone whether I want the system time (as opposed to hwclock, which I keep in UTC (or GMT)) to be adjusted for summer time or not. I say yes. So that is what I get. Could someone please explain, I genuinely don't understand :-(, why it is so difficult to say no? There presumably is a reason. Is it a bug? Am I just very lucky? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
