On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > I posted this to the list not too long ago, and the only response was I > got was a message saying "That's what you get for running unstable > distributions." As stated in my original message, the problem began with > hamm. The reason I was trying the unstable distributions was to attempt to > clear up the problem. After seeing that it did not help, I went back to > hamm. This message is being sent on a hamm system, and, as you can see, it > contains an invalid timezone stamp. Any help would be appreciated. > > On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > > What's wrong with the Debian timezones? I never had any problems with bo > > (that I remember), but when I upgraded to hamm, then slink, and now > > potato, something's wrong with the timezone. I have my system set up so > > that the system time is GMT, but the local time is Central. /etc/timezone > > contains one line: > > CST6CDT > > > > The above looks correct, because I am in Central and we have Daylight > > Savings Time in the summer. And Central is 6 hours east of GMT, so it all > > looks good. *However*, on outgoing mail (such as this message), it says > > "-0600 (EST)". This is not correct. I am not in Eastern, and if I were, > > that would be -0500. I checked in /usr/doc/timezone, but it's just glibc > > info. Not very useful. I checked some of the headers on this list, and I > > am not the only one experiencing this problem. What's up? > > > > /-----------------------------------------------------------\ > | pretzelgod | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | (Eric Gillespie, Jr.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > |---------------------------<*>-----------------------------| > | "Universal obedience is universal stagnation; | > | disobedience is one of the conditions of progress." | > | --Robert G. Ingersoll | > \-----------------------------------------------------------/ >
My /etc/timezone has the one line: US/Central I don't know if that makes a difference. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC!
