On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 08:31:41PM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 03:25:05AM -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > Dear Debian user, > > > > I have a weird time-zone related issue on my machine. I observed that > > the "alarm-clock" package was always ignoring my requests for an alarm > > within an hour from now, and all other alarms used to go off with an > > hour to spare. > > When exactly does the alarm-clock program use the time-zone data?
Always. The source code tells me that it stores the time you want the
alarm to activate, and there's a thread which computes the differences
between the current time and that time. All of these happen in the
current time in the current time-zone, as opposed to UTC.
Kumar
P. S. I used debootstrap to create another chroot, and there, I don't
see this problem at all. Which is weird, since it has the same version
of glib.
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