On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:07:54AM -0600, 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. > -- > Paul E Condon > pecon...@mesanetworks.net > cat /etc/timezone - mine reads /Etc/GMT
Run dpkg-reconfigure -plow tzdata Scroll down to "None of the above" - and choose GMT or the appropriate offset. Done :) AndyC > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
