Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My clock has allways automatically done this change, but not this > year! I wonder why.
Under Linux/Unix, the clock doesn't change; it's always set to Greenwich Mean Time. The value of your TZ environment variable determines how software interprets that time. If TZ is set appropriately, then when DST begins, your software will start interpreting the time as daylight savings, and it will appear that your clock has changed. However, it hasn't changed; just the external representation has changed. In general, TZ should get set correctly if the /etc/localtime file contains the correct timezone info file. You can copy a file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime, or use the tzconfig program, which does essentially the same thing. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Yow! I once decorated my UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | apartment entirely in ten foot Seattle, WA, USA | salad forks!! http://www.rudedog.org/ | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
