[Eug-lug] Daylight Savings as of 2007

[Michael Miller]

Garl,

Thanks for the older Redhat fix.  I was just going to look into that today.

Thanks,

-Miller

On 2/22/07, Garl Grigsby <badd_karma at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Garl...
> NP.
> >
> > This looks very very similar to what I tried the other day and I got
> > my machine's time all fubar... the 'w' command would show a time 8
> > hour sin the future, system clock showed current time... messing
> > around with them just made it worse... luckily I had backed up
> > /etc/locatime and could recover..
> >
> > Followed the above verbatim and have the same problem.... the only
> > thing w/ correct lines are /America/Los_Angeles
> If that is the case then you have your hardware clock set to localtime
> instead of UTC. The common wisdom is to always set your hardware clock
> to UTC. Then let the system set the software clock based on PST8DST. So,
> in your case instead of symlinking to PST8DST, symlink to
> '../America/Los_Angeles'.
> >
> > Again, glad I had a backup....
> Alternately you can do the following:
>
> 1) Update the TZ data files using the procedure I sent earlier.
> 2) run the timeconfig command and make sure the UTC setting is correct.
> If you want to switch the hardware clock to UTC do so now. We will
> adjust shortly.
> 3) Select the correct timezone, 'America/Los_Angeles' and exit.
> 4) This should create the correct localtime file. (keep your backup just
> in case).
> 5) Then check the system clock. If it is off, and it might be (esp if
> you switched to UTC), sync your clock to some known source (i.e. run
> 'ntpdate time.nist.gov')
> 6) Check the time. If it is correct, sync your hardware clock to the
> software clock using 'hwclock --systohc'.
>
> Garl
>
> Garl
>
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