On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:26 pm, Geoff Thurman wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2003 9:30 pm, Jigga Man wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am pretty much a new user to debian linux and i have > > a problem setting the correct time on my system. My > > hardware clock is set to GMT and when i installed > > debian i chose the time zone correctly. only thing is > > that we follow daylight savings time and now my clock > > ( which shows up on the panel) is off by an hour. I > > trired to look up help and found that i had an option > > of using ntpdate which would query some server using > > the internet and set the time. The problem is that > > this PC is not allowed to go to the internet. and from > > what i understand there is no way that debian has the > > functionlity to incorporate daylight savings time ?? > > > > Its seems like a night mare to be for the simple > > reason that windows has this capability built into it > > and debian being far better than windows lacks such a > > basic thing?? are there any apps are written to over > > come this ? > > > > desperately looking for an answer > > > > TIA > > > > Jigga > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard > > http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree > > There is certainly a way to do this, because I did it a week or two > ago. Sadly my mind has already let the process go. I think it might > be a case of running tzsetup, with root permissions, saying you want > to change the settings even if they already say London, and then look > out for the daylight saving time setting. If this doesn't do it, try > tzselect and follow a similar plan. It's there somewhere, honest. > > Cheers, > > Geoff
I see from the other replies that it should be tzconfig. My apologies. I tried 'apropos timezone' to jog my memory and that one didn't come up. My bad. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
