Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-15 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:49:16PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > [1] Why we still have the criminally stupid concept of DST is beyond > me...http://www.standardtime.com/ Brilliant! Wonder if there's a British version... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:1137

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-15 Thread John Hasler
Colin Watson writes: > Some people uninstall base-config after they're finished with the > installation. However, I have not done so. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:11:10PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Colin Watson writes: > > $ cat /etc/debian_version > > 3.0 > > $ which tzsetup > > /usr/sbin/tzsetup > > It doesn't show up on the Stable system I'm using right now. Some people uninstall base-config after they're finished with th

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-14 Thread John Hasler
Colin Watson writes: > $ cat /etc/debian_version > 3.0 > $ which tzsetup > /usr/sbin/tzsetup It doesn't show up on the Stable system I'm using right now. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 06:20:32PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Bill Marcum writes: > > Tzsetup, however, does have a man page. > > Tzsetup is not, however, present in Stable. $ cat /etc/debian_version 3.0 $ which tzsetup /usr/sbin/tzsetup $ dpkg -S tzsetup base-config: /usr/share/man/

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-14 Thread John Hasler
Bill Marcum writes: > Tzsetup, however, does have a man page. Tzsetup is not, however, present in Stable. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-14 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:13:18AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Geoff writes: > > I tried 'apropos timezone' to jog my memory and that one didn't come up. > > Tzconfig has no man page. This is a bug. Tzsetup, however, does have a man page. Tzsetup uses the debconf interface, while tzconfig is p

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-14 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Please file a bug report. David writes: > Would this be in tzconfig? File the bug against libc6. > Let's see.. IIRC when going into tzconfig, if you first choose your > continent, in my case, US, you are presented with certain cities, none of > which produce CST6CDT. Some may do auto

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-14 Thread David
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:00:46PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > David writes: > > I have a CST6CDT in this directory, but it doesn't show up in tzconfig > > (unless you choose SYSV). (I hope it changes OK next spring). > > Please file a bug report. Would this be in tzconfig? IIRC, it didn't show

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread Mike Mueller
On Thursday 13 November 2003 13:31, Gary Hennigan wrote: > This is all apart from the hardware/BIOS clock. The hardware clock > only matters at boot time and shutdown time. Once you get the time set > correctly in Linux you can synch your hardware clock using the > command: > >     hwclock --systoh

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread John Hasler
David writes: > I have a CST6CDT in this directory, but it doesn't show up in tzconfig > (unless you choose SYSV). (I hope it changes OK next spring). Please file a bug report. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:58:42AM -0800, Jigga Man wrote: >Sorry to directly send you an email but i dont know > how to reply to the mailing list. Most modern mail readers include a Reply-to-List option. Use this. If that fails, hit reply and ch

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread David
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:57:13AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > jigga writes: > > this time is still one hour off ..its says local time is 11:44 when its > > actully 10:44 here ... > > Use the 'date' command as previously explained to set the time. > > > i didnt find any specific option for daylig

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 18:57, John Hasler wrote: > jigga writes: > > this time is still one hour off ..its says local time is 11:44 when its > > actully 10:44 here ... > > Use the 'date' command as previously explained to set the time. > Sorry: I already deleted the first messages in this thread,

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jigga Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Sorry to directly send you an email but i dont know > how to reply to the mailing list. when i click the > reply to link it gives a dialog box saying mailto > protocl not registered. Anyways Thank you very much > for your time to help me with my problem

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread John Hasler
jigga writes: > this time is still one hour off ..its says local time is 11:44 when its > actully 10:44 here ... Use the 'date' command as previously explained to set the time. > i didnt find any specific option for daylight savings time... There is none. It isn't needed. The system knows all

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
Isn't this just a matter of re-running base-config and setting the hardware clock to UMT, as is suggested when running a dual boot system with windows? is there a dpkg-reconfigure that will get you into just the time settings part of base-config? Chris Am Donnerstag, 13. November 2003 15:

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread Jigga Man
Paul, Sorry to directly send you an email but i dont know how to reply to the mailing list. when i click the reply to link it gives a dialog box saying mailto protocl not registered. Anyways Thank you very much for your time to help me with my problem I tried the su -c tzconfig and when thru

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread John Hasler
Geoff writes: > I tried 'apropos timezone' to jog my memory and that one didn't come up. Tzconfig has no man page. This is a bug. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread Geoff Thurman
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

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:30:02PM -0800, Jigga Man wrote: > 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

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread Edward Murrell
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:30, Jigga Man wrote: > 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 ? The timezone setu

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread Mark Ferlatte
John Hasler said on Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:49:10PM -0600: > Mark Ferlatte writes: > > Check that the following things are true: > > ... > > ... > > Tzconfig creates the correct /etc/localtime link. Good to know. It doesn't do the other stuff, though, which also tends to cause people grief. M

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread John Hasler
Mark Ferlatte writes: > Check that the following things are true: > ... > ... Tzconfig creates the correct /etc/localtime link. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread John Hasler
Jigga Man writes: > ...only thing is that we follow daylight savings time and now my clock ( > which shows up on the panel) is off by an hour. Run tzconfig as root (you should have been offered an opportunity to do this during installation). If you can't find your time zone come back here and ask

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread Geoff Thurman
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 follo

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Jigga Man said on Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:30:02PM -0800: > 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 dayli

Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread Jigga Man
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 pane