On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: : On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: : : > : > Hi, : > : > I noticed with surprise tonight that my clock was an hour off. : > : > Investigating the matter revealed that /etc/timezone said : > US/Central. running /usr/sbin/tzconfig and setting it to : > SystemV/CST6CDT fixed the problem. : > : > However, the install program, and tzconfig, both have a problem. They : > do not explain the difference, why one might work and the other : > might not, etc. Also, why does US/Central not work? : > : > The boot disks should not offer confusing options. They should offer : > the working one (CST6CDT for me) and no non-working ones. The same : > goes for tzconfig. Otherwise, anybody using xntp or something similar : > will always get incorrect times. : > : I'm sorry to disapoint you, but US/Central is a perfectly valid timezone. : It is only intended for those parts of the central US where Daylight : Savings Time is not practiced. You will notice that there are equivalet : settings for the other timezones as well.
Huh? I live in the Central timezone, and I can assure you that we practice Daylight Savings Time. kepler:~ $ cat /etc/timezone US/Central kepler:~ $ date Tue Jun 16 09:12:45 CDT 1998 All of our servers are set to "US/Central" - except the BSDi box :) We currently have 8 Debian boxes here. All run either xntp, or ntpdate periodically. One of the Debian boxes is a tier 3 NTP server - a Bay router helps out in that capacity as well. I believe the non-DST zones are specifically spelled out, like "US/Arizona". I believe "US/Indiana-Starke" and "US/East-Indiana" serve a similar purpose but I don't live there, so I really can't say. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
