On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 02:22:38PM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > Hi, > > I had several problems with timezones, and for many weeks my clock was > wrong because of daylight savings (even though it said it changed the > clock at that time, looks like it lost this information at the first > boot), and I had no time to dig into this, untill finally I just > changed the BIOS clock by hand... > > But I wanted to understand how does the timezones work, and I went to > /usr/doc/timezones, and found the glibc docs, instead of timezone's!
That's because timezones is part of glibc. > Well, in my system: > > $ date > Tue Feb 17 14:09:22 PST 1998 > $ date -R > Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:14:47 -0800 > > nr# dpkg -l timezone > ic timezone 7.55-2 Data files needed to set your local time > > My questions are: > > 1) Is this correct for CA (-0800, at daylight savings period)? Yes. > 1) At the daylight savings dates, is timezone supposed to change the > BIOS clock, or should it leave the BIOS clock unchanged, and > "transform" BIOS time in PST time? Will it change automatically now, > when the daylight period ends? You don't need to worry about it. Linux should automatically correct the clock. > 2) Is it better/worse/possible to have the BIOS clock set to GMT, and > let timezone transforms it? In this case, how one can see the BIOS > clock time? > > 3) should I upgrade timezone? No, it was replaced by timezones. Hope this helps, Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
