Re: [SLUG] DST in debain

[grove@xxxxxxxxxxx]

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Simon Males wrote:

> > 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
>
> Same happened to me this morning on my Debian Lenny desktop. On boot I sync 
> with time.optusnet.com.au, which brought me back an hour. Then I used GNOME's 
> gui magic time zone selecter to actually set Australia/Sydney.

Whatever happened to doing:
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/

Getting the latest tzdata file and running zic/zdump on it?!

Guess that is what UNIX admins do.....

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