Re potato seeming not to be handling EST correctly, I'm still confused, but I have it working okay now (with some manual intervention) and have more info ...
I noticed that when I use tzconfig to set timezone to EST5EDT it copies file EST5EDT to /etc/localtime (rather than creating a link, as the doc states). That makes it a little hard to know which file is being used, as there are multiple such files: (all are perm -rw-r--r--, owner root:root, and dated Mar 7 14:17) ... 4 ... 1250 ... /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT ... 1 ... 1428 ... /usr/share/zoneinfo/SystemV/EST5EDT ... 3 ... 1250 ... /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/EST5EDT ... 1 ... 1428 ... /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/SystemV/EST5EDT ... 3 ... 1426 ... /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/EST5EDT ... 1 ... 1604 ... /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/SystemV/EST5EDT Based on file size and diff'ing, tzconfig copies /usr/share/zoneinfo/SystemV/EST5EDT. As an experiment I manually copied /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT instead. The system now correctly reports: $ date Mon Apr 3 13:13:45 EDT 2000 Anyone know what's going on? I only used tzconfig to set to EST5EDT because I saw the problem; it was already set to that timezone. FYI, the system was not rebooted (uptime since last November), and it has always handled the EST->EDT and EDT->EST transitions fine in the past (running slink). I have not messed with any of these files manually, and they all seem to be coming from the same package: $ dpkg -S EST5EDT libc6: /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/EST5EDT libc6: /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/SystemV/EST5EDT libc6: /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT libc6: /usr/share/zoneinfo/SystemV/EST5EDT libc6: /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/EST5EDT libc6: /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/SystemV/EST5EDT $ dpkg -S tzconfig libc6: /usr/share/man/man1/tzconfig.1.gz libc6: /usr/sbin/tzconfig Ideas? Thanks! On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 09:43:11AM -0500, Touloumtzis, Michael wrote: > Arriving at work this morning I notice that my Debian box (running > up-to-date potato) still thinks it's standard time. A similarly > configured RedHat 6.0 box reports daylight savings time. > > Am I missing something? > > # date > Mon Apr 3 09:38:53 EST 2000 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > # cat /etc/timezone > SystemV/EST5EDT > > # hwclock --show > Mon Apr 3 14:38:54 2000 -1.001596 seconds > > # grep ^UTC /etc/default/rcS > UTC=yes -- Michael E. Touloumtzis mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- Ingres Product Development mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Associates International
