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Re: DST: Same procedure as every half-year?
From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson(at)cox.net>
Date: Wed Oct 31 2007 - 06:23:18 EDT
>> On 10/31/07 02:11, Dan H wrote:
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>> it happened again (in Germany, anyway). As of Sunday, we're back
>>> on winter time (CET). Except my computer ain't. And every
>>> half-year I forget just what I did to set the clock right. I've
>>> got the timezone set right (Europe/Berlin CET) but the clock
>>> lags. Is there some accepted standard and automatic way of
>>> honoring DST? Even Windows gets this right. I'm using ntpd to
>>> sync my clock. Ntp itself works right -- every now and then I
>>> have to erase my buggy BIOS settings, which resets the hardware
>>> clock to the Nineties, but when Linux comes up the clock is
>>> always correct (except that little DST issue of course).
>> Automatic clock adjustment has always worked for me.
>>
>> What branch are you using? Etch? Sarge?
>>
>> What version of tzdata do you have?
>>
>> --
>> Ron Johnson, Jr.
>> Jefferson LA USA
>>
Date: Wed Oct 31 2007 - 06:23:18 EDT
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On 10/31/07 04:57, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 October 2007 10:33, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 10/31/07 02:11, Dan H wrote:
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>> it happened again (in Germany, anyway). As of Sunday, we're back
>>> on winter time (CET). Except my computer ain't. And every
>>> half-year I forget just what I did to set the clock right. I've
>>> got the timezone set right (Europe/Berlin CET) but the clock
>>> lags. Is there some accepted standard and automatic way of
>>> honoring DST? Even Windows gets this right. I'm using ntpd to
>>> sync my clock. Ntp itself works right -- every now and then I
>>> have to erase my buggy BIOS settings, which resets the hardware
>>> clock to the Nineties, but when Linux comes up the clock is
>>> always correct (except that little DST issue of course).
>> Automatic clock adjustment has always worked for me.
>>
>> What branch are you using? Etch? Sarge?
>>
>> What version of tzdata do you have?
>>
>> --
>> Ron Johnson, Jr.
>> Jefferson LA USA
>>
> > Well, I did a few install of Etch lately, and I notice, for the time to be > adjusted automaticly, that after the install is complete, I had to run > tzconfig. This is for install either with etch only, or with dual boot. First > at the end of each install the time given by date was OK, both UTC and local > (France), but the time given by KDE was out. Having ntp running does not > ajuste the time in KDE. Which would then give wrong time when you send a > mail, say. Then I run tzconfig (which told me Europe and Paris, do you change > it?) and re-enter the time zone, and every thing was OK, and all of the box > adjusted the time automaticly for winter time.
Has tzconfig been removed in Sid?
- -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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