On 30/10/06 08:07, Ed McCanless wrote:
Found this subject in the archives, haven't received any of the messages
yet. But I noticed this problem too.
The explanations confused me, can someone please clarify?
On install, I set up the time the same way I had done it when I
installed 10.0, EST. The older system always changed automatically.
( I am sure glad all this talk of what is the hardware clock, and what
does or does not run in UTC, is helping people like Ed and Simon to
solve their basic problem -- .)
I've just spent a bit of time comparing file sizes in the timezone
files, /usr/share/zoneinfo/*. Although these files are in a binary
format, their sizes alone seem to be sufficiently informative of which
files do, and do not, involve DST adjustments.
If you set your timezone to just "EST" (which you can check by running
'grep TIMEZONE /etc/sysconfig/clock', without the quotes of course),
then I believe your clock has been set to plain EST, not daylight time
involved. Similarly, Simon should check for a timezone set to just "MST"
in the same place. Ed's timezone should probably be EST5EDT or
US/Eastern, while Simon's should be MST7MDT or US/Mountain.
These changes can be made directly into /etc/sysconfig/clock (after
which the clock should be restarted, "/etc/init.d/boot.clock restart"),
or in the Yast Sysconfig Editor, System/environment/clock/timezone, or
in Yast/System/Date and time (Yast will restart the clock automatically).