Re: Timezones for Kontact seriously broken in Lenny

2010-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:28:37 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Ah, this is so deeply frustrating! KDE 4.4 sounds great but it is > nowhere to be found in Debian but in experimental and it sounds like it > is nowhere near ready for production. 3.5.10 is truly and completely, > unusably broken f

Re: Timezones for Kontact seriously broken in Lenny

2010-05-02 Thread John A. Sullivan III
found it stable enough for daily use. So the advice of updating to KDE > 4 (if you still want to use KDE) is now valid. > > > > I did not see anything in backports. Here's what we are seeing: > > > > Timezones: Any appointments synchronized with Korganizer from Z

Re: Timezones for Kontact seriously broken in Lenny

2010-04-19 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:36:12 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> I was a KDE 3.5.x user for long time (2003-2010) but switched to GNOME >> as soon as the first KDE 4.0 came to scene (it was not intended for >> end- users but *we had* to deal with it and the result was many people >>

Re: Timezones for Kontact seriously broken in Lenny

2010-04-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 19 April 2010 16:36:12 Clive McBarton wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > > I was a KDE 3.5.x user for long time (2003-2010) but switched to GNOME as > > soon as the first KDE 4.0 came to scene (it was not intended for end- > > users but *we had* to deal with it and the result was many people > >

Re: Timezones for Kontact seriously broken in Lenny

2010-04-19 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón wrote: > I was a KDE 3.5.x user for long time (2003-2010) but switched to GNOME as > soon as the first KDE 4.0 came to scene (it was not intended for end- > users but *we had* to deal with it and the result was many people > searched another

Re: Timezones for Kontact seriously broken in Lenny

2010-04-18 Thread Camaleón
ves, me included). But now, KDE SC 4.4 has nothing to do with that times. Last time I tested I found it stable enough for daily use. So the advice of updating to KDE 4 (if you still want to use KDE) is now valid. > I did not see anything in backports. Here's what we are seeing: > &

Timezones for Kontact seriously broken in Lenny

2010-04-17 Thread John A. Sullivan III
users handling the crippling bugs? I did not see anything in backports. Here's what we are seeing: Timezones: Any appointments synchronized with Korganizer from Zimbra are interpreted as UTC. Thus, all appointments are offset by our offset from UTC. This is the bug which is rendering it unusa

imapfilter and timezones

2008-11-15 Thread lee
Hi, just to be curious, how does IMAP --- in particular imapfilter --- deal with timezones? For example: C (3): 1003 SELECT "SPAM" S (3): 1003 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed C (3): 1004 UID SEARCH ALL BEFORE 12-Nov-2008 S (3): 1004 OK SEARCH completed C (3): 1005 UID STORE 9:50 +FL

Help with timezones (values of TZ) and summer (daylight savings) time.

2006-04-11 Thread Adam Funk
I'm working on a script to record some radio shows broadcast on the east coast of the USA and I want the filenames to contain the local time when the recording started. The script worked fine during the winter: TIMESTAMP=`TZ=EST date +%Y%m%d-%H%M-%Z` but I wanted to modify it for the summer.

Debian, leap seconds, timezones, and zdump

2005-12-31 Thread Neal McBurnett
made back in July, but the Debian glibc6 package hasn't yet been updated so the arcane and deprecated little "zdump" trick in Linux that allows them to be documented doesn't know about this one. No big deal, since most people don't care about time that precisely, and do

RE: two CST timezones

2002-09-22 Thread Yu Guanghui
TED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: two CST timezones > > > >>>>> "Yu" == Yu Guanghui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yu>From glibc manuals, "Note: This is not implemented > (currently). The problem is > Yu> that timezone name

Re: timezones and time setting

2001-12-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:44:51AM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 13:01:29 +1030, David Purton wrote: > > Is there a how-to or reference somewhere that explains the whole > > timezone/time stting thing? > > Not that I'm aware of. Some system admi

Re: timezones and time setting

2001-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 13:01:29 +1030, David Purton wrote: > Is there a how-to or reference somewhere that explains the whole > timezone/time stting thing? Not that I'm aware of. > There are lots of points which I don't quite follow... > > like when I should use the (numerous) various different

Re: timezones and time setting

2001-12-01 Thread David Purton
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Michael Jager wrote: > claiming to be David Purton, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > FWIW, my bios clock is set to localtime (as occasionally I do boot to > > windows), my timezome is set (using tzconfig) to australia/adelaide, > > which is normally GMT -9:30, except at the mome

Re: timezones and time setting

2001-12-01 Thread Michael Jager
claiming to be David Purton, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > FWIW, my bios clock is set to localtime (as occasionally I do boot to > windows), my timezome is set (using tzconfig) to australia/adelaide, > which is normally GMT -9:30, except at the moment we are on daylight > saving time, so I guess it'

timezones and time setting

2001-12-01 Thread David Purton
Is there a how-to or reference somewhere that explains the whole timezone/time stting thing? There are lots of points which I don't quite follow... like when I should use the (numerous) various different commands for setting the time. Is linux supposed to automatically adjust for daylight savin

Re: configuring timezones

2000-11-08 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > Hi, all Hi Pedro, > > In my country (Brazil), each year there is a diferent day for changing the > clock to daylight saving time. if you chose the correct timezone with tzconfig, it'll take care of that for you. > > This year, the clock ch

configuring timezones

2000-11-08 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
Hi, all In my country (Brazil), each year there is a diferent day for changing the clock to daylight saving time. This year, the clock changed in the wrong day from BRT (GMT - 3hs) to BRST (GMT - 2hs). How can I set the date that system will change my clock? Thanks Pedro

Re: time and timezones

2000-09-20 Thread John Anderson
Try the command which will ask you to enter your local time zone and set it accordingly. I hope this helps. John Kerr Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Andreas Palsson w

Re: time and timezones

2000-09-20 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Andreas Palsson wrote: > Here's a simple question. > I've not been able to set my systems time correctly. > > I've used 'hwclock' and set the hardware clock, and I guess it should be > set to GMT. > But what do I do after that? > > If I use 'hwclock --hctosys' the system-time

time and timezones

2000-09-20 Thread Andreas Palsson
Hello. Here's a simple question. I've not been able to set my systems time correctly. I've used 'hwclock' and set the hardware clock, and I guess it should be set to GMT. But what do I do after that? If I use 'hwclock --hctosys' the system-time will be the same as GMT and not Swedish time. And b

Netscape mail & timezones

1999-12-16 Thread Chris Schleifer
Hey, There was a thread a week or so ago trying to figure out why Netscape was always stamping GMT times on emails sent from it. I can't find an answer for the problem in the archives yet, and I don't remember there being one on the list. Anyway I found the answer today when this started to bother

Re: What happend to timezones?

1999-12-14 Thread Shaul Karl
d> Hi! > > Last time I upgraded my potato (few days ago), the timezone package has > gone away, so I can't tell to my machine that I'm in GMT+1. It would be > important because there is an othet OS on my hdd, which requires GMT+1 to > be present in CMOS. > > Any idea? > It is all here. for exam

What happend to timezones?

1999-12-14 Thread Lukacs Gyula
Hi! Last time I upgraded my potato (few days ago), the timezone package has gone away, so I can't tell to my machine that I'm in GMT+1. It would be important because there is an othet OS on my hdd, which requires GMT+1 to be present in CMOS. Any idea? btw, netdate is being used hourly to keep sy

Re: cron and timezones

1999-10-25 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 02:16:17PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:48:38PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:36:21PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > > > > > > I'll assume you're in the UK: You are mistaken in believing your time > > > zone is set co

Re: cron and timezones

1999-10-25 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > I've just noticed that cron takes no notice of the current > timezone: all my cron jobs were running an hour late and I didn't > know why until recently. Restart cron, cron only reads the timezone file when it starts up first .. Jason

cron and timezones

1999-10-25 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I've just noticed that cron takes no notice of the current timezone: all my cron jobs were running an hour late and I didn't know why until recently. My timezone is set correctly, using tzconfig, so date gives: Mon Oct 25 20:35:42 BST 1999 Unfortunately, cron thinks this means 19:35:42 GMT, and

Re: timezones and potato

1999-04-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 07:14:34PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I have upgraded to potato. All went well, but I can not intall timezones. I > get > the message it conflicts with libc6. I litterally have to "remove my whole > system" to install timezones f

timezones and potato

1999-04-24 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I have upgraded to potato. All went well, but I can not intall timezones. I get the message it conflicts with libc6. I litterally have to "remove my whole system" to install timezones from unstable. Can anyone help? TIA --- Regards, Christian Dy

Re: timezones FAQ

1999-04-08 Thread Kevin Dalley
Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I 'had' the same problem. The only clue I had was to read the manpage > for tzconfig. It led me to look at /etc/timezone which contained > 'EDT'. It also led me to see what /etc/localtime was pointing to, wonder > of wonders, /usr/share/zoneinfo/EDT. As

Re: timezones FAQ

1999-04-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: timezones FAQ Date: Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 11:26:48AM -0400 In reply to:Seth M. Landsman Quoting Seth M. Landsman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Okay, here's a probable FAQ that I can't find the answer to in > /usr/doc or the man pages or through

timezones FAQ

1999-04-07 Thread Seth M. Landsman
Okay, here's a probable FAQ that I can't find the answer to in /usr/doc or the man pages or through some web surfing. As of daylight savings time, all my debian machines have been slow one hour because the timezone is not correct. The obvious (changing /etc/timezone

Re: new libc6 in potato conflicts with timezones

1999-03-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
Yeah, it looks like timezones didn't get updated with the rest of the libc6 stuff, and dselect wants to remove the old one. On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, David Natkins wrote: > Subject says it all. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet:

Re: new libc6 in potato conflicts with timezones

1999-03-13 Thread David Natkins
Subject says it all. -- David Natkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian Timezones

1998-11-30 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
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/timezon

Re: timezones

1998-10-29 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
David S. Zelinsky wrote: > Since I dual boot with Win95, I have my hardware clock set to local time. > I don't use Win95 much any more (read: my wife now uses Linux :), so I figure > I might as well change over to UTC, so Linux will handle daylight/standard > time correctly (I hope). > > How do I

timezones

1998-10-28 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Since I dual boot with Win95, I have my hardware clock set to local time. I don't use Win95 much any more (read: my wife now uses Linux :), so I figure I might as well change over to UTC, so Linux will handle daylight/standard time correctly (I hope). How do I make that change? I can't find any d

Re: help me understand timezones

1998-02-20 Thread shaul
> GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the same thing as UTC (Universal > Coordinated Time--UTC is actually the acronym as it is in French). So > the term GMT is obsolete but the meaning is unchanged. Does Debian knows that ? I mean, does the timezone package, and the rest of the debian distribution, co

Re: help me understand timezones

1998-02-19 Thread David Wright
While the world no longer sets its clocks to GMT but UTC, GMT is still a local timezone in the sense that EST is. Only its universality is obsolete. On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Bill Leach wrote: > You were told correctly... > > GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the same thing as UTC (Universal > Coordinate

Re: help me understand timezones

1998-02-19 Thread Bill Leach
You were told correctly... GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the same thing as UTC (Universal Coordinated Time--UTC is actually the acronym as it is in French). So the term GMT is obsolete but the meaning is unchanged. > A related timezone question: > > What is the difference between GMT and UTC ? >

Re: help me understand timezones

1998-02-19 Thread shaul
A related timezone question: What is the difference between GMT and UTC ? I was told that GMT is obsolete, and that UTC is now considered as its successor. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: help me understand timezones

1998-02-18 Thread Adam Klein
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

help me understand timezones

1998-02-17 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
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

Re: hamm timezones problem

1998-02-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
; AFAIK this is the right list. > > > > > Now, the problem: > > > > $ date > > Mon Feb 16 23:26:53 /etc/localtime 1998 > > I had this problem when I upgraded to hamm after installing only the base > system, so the timezone package from bo which took care about >

Re: hamm timezones problem

1998-02-17 Thread Adam Klein
6:53 /etc/localtime 1998 > $ dpkg -l timezones > ... > ii timezones 2.0.7pre1-1Time zone data files and utilities. > > on a different hamm machine: > > $ date > Tu

Re: hamm timezones problem

1998-02-17 Thread Gergely Madarasz
23:26:53 /etc/localtime 1998 I had this problem when I upgraded to hamm after installing only the base system, so the timezone package from bo which took care about /etc/localtime wasnt installed. I dont know exactly how the new timezones package should handle this, but here is a workaround: r

hamm timezones problem

1998-02-16 Thread Tim Bell
First, a meta-question: is this the right list to be asking hamm-specific questions, or is there a developers list which is preferred for such things? Now, the problem: $ date Mon Feb 16 23:26:53 /etc/localtime 1998 $ dpkg -l timezones ... ii timezones 2.0.7pre1-1Time zone data files

Re: timezones 2.0.7pre1-1 is broken

1998-02-13 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
ezone, (listed below) which is identical to /usr/doc/libc6. I don't understand this. The dpkg -L list shows timezones as containing this directory, but not the files included in it. It is a bug if timezones doesn't have a manpage, and the contents of this directory are also a bug. bob:vc-2:bo

Re: timezones 2.0.7pre1-1 is broken

1998-02-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert D. Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I updated my hamm system tonight from my local mirror, >timezones was updated to 2.0.7pre1-1. It removed the setting GMT="" >from wherever it belongs in hamm. That wasn't

Re: timezones 2.0.7pre1-1 is broken

1998-02-13 Thread Steve Hsieh
Try rerunning /usr/sbin/tzconfig ; when I run that the /etc/localtime gets fixed. (Seems to occur if you remove the timezone package from bo after installing timezones in hamm) On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > When I updated my hamm system tonight from my local mir

timezones 2.0.7pre1-1 is broken

1998-02-13 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
When I updated my hamm system tonight from my local mirror, timezones was updated to 2.0.7pre1-1. It removed the setting GMT="" from wherever it belongs in hamm. (It was in /etc/init.d/boot pre-hamm, but I haven't looked for it before now that /etc/init.d/boot is no longer us