from my /etc/ directory l |grep time -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 2005-08-24 02:54 adjtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2005-08-21 13:18 localtime-> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Mountain -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16 2005-08-15 14:09 timezone
Contents of the timezone file: Canada/Mountain I don't use Evolution anymore but setting the timezone to Edmonton worked for me. Bios clock is also set to localtime. FYI Mandrake is very different from Debian. You are better off forgetting how you did things before and relearn the Debian way. You will break your Debian install otherwise (I started with Red Hat and Mandrake before moving to Debian). This also goes for Red Hat and Fedora, they are very different from the Debian et al. camp (Mepis, Ubtuntu, Xandros, Linspire etc.). Fortunatly there is a lot of good documentation from the Debian.org site. The ubuntu wiki is also quite usefull. --No trees were harmed in the transmission of this message, however a large number
of electrons were seriously inconvenienced. Quoting Royce Souther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I am trying to get my timzone set properly in Debian. I have been using Mandrake for over five years now and never had such problems as I am with Debian. I don't fully understand what Debian is doing with the timezone settings. I hope someone can explain it to me. I have my BIOS clock set to local time. I am in Lethbridge. I want my timezone to be Canada/Mountain but I use Evolution for my PIM and it will only accept America/Edmonton. That is okey with me. I know that Edmonton is in the same timezone as Mountain. If I run tzconfig and set my timezone to Canada/Mountain then run "hwclock --hctosys" to get the clock set. I run date and see "Wed Aug 24 09:18:24 EDT 2005" that is the correct time but WTF is EDT. I was expecting to see MDT like Mandrake shows me. This also seems to be a problem with the UTC. This is what I get on Mandrake date; date -u Wed Aug 24 09:22:35 MDT 2005 Wed Aug 24 15:22:35 UTC 2005 This is what I get on Debian date; date -u Wed Aug 24 09:21:54 EDT 2005 Wed Aug 24 13:21:54 UTC 2005 From reading dozens of pages where people are having problems with timezone settings in Debian I have found that this is most likely the cause of the problem I am having with Evolution. For the most part as long as my local time is correct I am happy but the time problem is doing very goofy stuff with Evolution. If I make an appointment in my calendar or set some event this is what happens. Double click on a time say 9:00 AM. The event dialog shows up and it says that my event will be at 1:00PM the same day. Save the even and it will be scheduled to happen at 5:00 PM. Sync it to my Palm Pilot and the event is marked to be at 3:00 AM. Now that is some messed up stuff. I have found a way to force the date command to produce the proper results. Debian is making a symlink from /etc/localtime to some timezone file in /usr/share/zoneinfo. By doing a md5sum on the Mandrake system and a search for a matching file on Debian I found that the proper file is in /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/America/Edmonton and by manualy liking /etc/localtime to that file my date commands give the right times and zones. Evolution is still giving goofy times for events but I may have to reboot to fix that problem. I don't like this solution because tzconfig will not let me select the postfix files as my time zone. I have checked and all my debs are upto date with Sarge. Questions for Debian experts: 1) Why can't I select postfix timezones with tzconfig? 2) What should /etc/timezone say? 3) What is the problem with Evolution? Roy Souther www.SiliconTao.com Let Open Source help your business move beyond. For security this message is digitally authenticated by GnuPG.
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