[S.u.S.E. Linux] daylight saving time
On my SuSE 5.0 box (which runs so well I'm loth to go to 5.2) I have my clock set to local (Alaska) time, rather than UTC. All was well until the Great Cosmic Joke, daylight saving time came into effect. Whenever I start up the clock is reset to AST, rather than ADT. It's easily enough adjusted with netdate, but I would love to know why, and what I might do to make it correct (other than wait for Autumn). TIA, phil -- [Nuclear war] ... may not be desirable. -- Edwin Meese III - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
At 04:05 PM 07/21/98 -0800, phil wrote:
On my SuSE 5.0 box (which runs so well I'm loth to go to 5.2) I have my clock set to local (Alaska) time, rather than UTC. All was well until the Great Cosmic Joke, daylight saving time came into effect. Whenever I start up the clock is reset to AST, rather than ADT. It's easily enough adjusted with netdate, but I would love to know why, and what I might do to make it correct (other than wait for Autumn).
TIA, phil
One possible solution; change the clock setting in your BIOS to the correct 'local' time whether it be ADT or AST. HTH Arun Khan - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
OK, very clever, so clever I should have thought of it myself. Thanks, Arun. Note to self: bargain BIOSs save nothing, especially expensive with respect to "face". phil Arun K. Khan wrote: <snip dumb question!>
One possible solution; change the clock setting in your BIOS to the correct 'local' time whether it be ADT or AST.
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Hi, On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, phillip mannie wrote:
On my SuSE 5.0 box (which runs so well I'm loth to go to 5.2) I have my clock set to local (Alaska) time, rather than UTC. All was well until the Great Cosmic Joke, daylight saving time came into effect. Whenever I start up the clock is reset to AST, rather than ADT. It's easily enough adjusted with netdate, but I would love to know why, and what I might do to make it correct (other than wait for Autumn).
This is intentional. If you set your hardware clock to GMT, Linux will take care of adjusting the system time to DST and back. But on some systems there is W95 installed which does this adjustement, too, so you'll get wrong times in Linux. When setting the hardware clock to local time, you are saying: "I want my time be adjusted by W95, nobody else should touch it" ;-)
TIA, phil -o) Hubert /\\ _\_v
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One additional question on this topic: UTC (wisely) doesn't use daylight savings time; do you mean that I can set the system clock to UTC yet have the local time displayed in places where I want it (like X)? Is there a FM that I've overlooked R-ing? Thanks again, phil Hubert Mantel wrote:
This is intentional.
If you set your hardware clock to GMT, Linux will take care of adjusting the system time to DST and back. But on some systems there is W95 installed which does this adjustement, too, so you'll get wrong times in Linux. When setting the hardware clock to local time, you are saying: "I want my time be adjusted by W95, nobody else should touch it" ;-)
TIA, phil -o) Hubert /\\ _\_v
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Hi, On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, phillip mannie wrote:
One additional question on this topic: UTC (wisely) doesn't use daylight savings time; do you mean that I can set the system clock to UTC yet have the local time displayed in places where I want it (like X)? Is
Yes. Linux knows by the timezone descriptions when DST has to be in effect. We have the CMOS clocks of almost all our machines set to UTC, so we don't have to care about switching to DST or back.
there a FM that I've overlooked R-ing?
Thanks again, phil
Hubert Mantel wrote: -o) Hubert /\\ _\_v
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Thanks, Hubert, worked like a charm! phil Hubert Mantel wrote:
Yes. Linux knows by the timezone descriptions when DST has to be in effect. We have the CMOS clocks of almost all our machines set to UTC, so we don't have to care about switching to DST or back.
-o) Hubert /\\ _\_v
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