Re: [SLUG] DST in debain

[Jeff Waugh <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<quote who="Rev Simon Rumble">

> This one time, at band camp, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> 
> > Long and short of it some devices will change incorrectly todat (eg my
> > mobile phone), others are correct. Thank $deity I haven't got a large
> > server/blackberry/phone infrastructure to manage at the moment.
> 
> My Ubuntu desktop doesn't seem to have done it right.  Now how to fix it?
> There's no new tzdata package available...

Make sure your /etc/timezone is actually set to Australia/Sydney. One of my
machines did the wrong thing because it was set to 'User defined' -- perhaps
the result of an errant upgrade? I've certainly not set it myself. Anyway,
that might be the problem... sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

- Jeff

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