Re: Setting local time.

2005-12-10 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Paul Scott wrote: That was ugly! Since I have a time configuration problem I just tried this suggestion. I had manually installed all my packages. Since I chose nothing at the install packages step it is about to remove some of my vital packa

Re: Setting local time.

2005-12-09 Thread Paul Scott
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Paul Scott wrote: That was ugly! Since I have a time configuration problem I just tried this suggestion. I had manually installed all my packages. Since I chose nothing at the install packages step it is about to remove some of my vital packages. Sorry. bas

Re: Setting local time.

2005-12-09 Thread Ken Heard
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Ken Heard wrote: In any event I ran it just now and found that the KDE clock applet in the lower right corner of the panel now shows local time when it should, rather than UTC. base-config configures the settings for the system time. Each user can opt to con

Re: Setting local time.

2005-12-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
[snip] There is no advantage to have the sun go down "one hour earlier" in winter than in summer [snip] Actualy it's the other way around. The winter time is the "real" one ;) Andrei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Setting local time.

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday, 9 December 2005 at 10:53:09 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Personally, I hate this switching altogether: There is no advantage to > have the sun go down "one hour earlier" in winter than in summer; the > length of a day is independent of the fact that silly authorities change >

Re: Setting local time.

2005-12-09 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ken Heard wrote: In any event I ran it just now and found that the KDE clock applet in the lower right corner of the panel now shows local time when it should, rather than UTC. base-config configures the settings for the system time. Each user can opt to configure the kde clock to show so

Re: Setting local time.

2005-12-09 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Paul Scott wrote: That was ugly! Since I have a time configuration problem I just tried this suggestion. I had manually installed all my packages. Since I chose nothing at the install packages step it is about to remove some of my vital packages. Sorry. base-config shows a menu, where yo

Re: Setting local time.

2005-12-08 Thread Paul Scott
Ken Heard wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote, in part: Why don't you set up your system time via # base-config That was ugly! Since I have a time configuration problem I just tried this suggestion. I had manually installed all my packages. Since I chose nothing at the install packages st

Re: Setting local time.

2005-12-08 Thread Ken Heard
Johannes Wiedersich wrote, in part: Why don't you set up your system time via # base-config I was not aware of the existence of this package. I know that when I installed Sarge last July I had to set the time zone, but I must have gotten it wrong. By running aptitude I found this package

Re: Setting local time.

2005-12-08 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ken Heard wrote: On boot I want to have the system clock set to local time -- Eastern Standard Time (EST) in my case. First, I want rdate to be run on daily boot to set the hardware clock, which would consequently always be set to UDC. Second, the system clock on boot would have to be set