Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-09 Thread Roger Mason
Hi James, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I I re-emerge 'timezone-data' and just wait until spring to see if there > is a problem? Here is the procedure I used last spring (you'll need to set the TIMEZONE according to your location: (1) Sync. (perhaps not required if portage is fairly up t

[gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread Teng Wang
I suggest you install ntpd, which will sync time with ntp server. And I dont think set CLOCK="UTC" is a good idea. If you are using WINXP, it will change your clock to local always. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread James
Vaeth mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de> writes: > Only if you run CLOCK=UTC the shift is guaranteed to work in any case > (of course, unless another program like windows interferes). Well 'local' did not work, so I'm going to set it to UTC and see what happens in the spring. James -- [EMAIL P

[gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread James
Albert Hopkins letterboxes.org> writes: > /etc/init.d/clock is run pretty early in the init process; before all > filesystems in /etc/fstab are mounted. If /usr/share/zoneinfo is on a > filesystem that is not mounted when /etc/init.d/clock is run then it > will fail and ugly things will happen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 17:29 -0500, Eric Martin wrote: > Why copy? when stuff gets updated you'll have to copy again. I'd > suggest making a symlink. Also, I see the timestamps and sizes are the > same, but are the md5's the same? If not, these aren't the same file. > Copy is what the emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread Eric Martin
James wrote: > Shawn Haggett podgeweb.com> writes: > > > >>> In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings: >>> CLOCK="local" >>> TIMEZONE="America/New_York" >>> CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes" >>> > > >> Is the /etc/localtime file correct? i.e.: >> > > >> $ cp /usr/share/zo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread Roger Mason
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Any other ideas? > Maybe I need to 'reemerge' something? > timezone-data? Cheers, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Daylight savings time

2007-11-07 Thread James
Shawn Haggett podgeweb.com> writes: > > In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings: > > CLOCK="local" > > TIMEZONE="America/New_York" > > CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes" > Is the /etc/localtime file correct? i.e.: > $ cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime -rw-r--r-- 1 r

[gentoo-user] Re: daylight savings time [Slightly OT]

2007-03-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-03-02, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 10:12 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: >> se having trouble with the format (^M's) in Ennis' email? >> > >> nope. maybe it's due to top-posting . no just kidding, but >> isn't that indicative of a NL/CR-LF difference betwe

[gentoo-user] Re: daylight savings time [Slightly OT]

2007-03-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-03-02, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone else having trouble with the format (^M's) in Ennis' > email? Yea, his posting looks pretty much like the dog's breakfast inside slrn. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Oh, I get it!! "The