How do I disable automatic DST change in Mandrake 10.1 ?
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From: Unruh on 30 Oct 2007 02:52 Wes Newell <w.newell(a)TAKEOUTverizon.net> writes: >On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:15:29 -0500, djin wrote: >> I was an hour late for my class today because Mandrake 10.1 >> automatically changed to EST from EDT and I didn't realize it. How do I >> disable this? Or better yet, configure it so it knows the new time >> change dates? I'm not seeing any obvious option like "enable Daylight >> Savings Time" in anything associated with right-clicking the time. Using >> KDE 3.2. >http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linux+timezone&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8 You have not updated your system in a long long long time, not surprizing since Mandrake 10.1 has been out of support for years. You heed to get a tzdata file Just lift it out of one of the more recent mandrivas (they just released tzdata 2007h) and install it with rpm. tzdata file formats have not changed in a long time, although the data has. nux dows not "enable Daylight time by rightclicking" It has a file, specially designed for your particular location, which tells the system exactly when Daylight Saving time stops and starts. >-- >Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org >My Tivo Experience http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/tivo.htm >Tivo HD/S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm >AMD cpu help http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php
From: Wes Newell on 30 Oct 2007 05:24 On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:51:13 -0500, djin wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:40:07 +0000, Wes Newell wrote: > >> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:15:29 -0500, djin wrote: >> >>> I was an hour late for my class today because Mandrake 10.1 >>> automatically changed to EST from EDT and I didn't realize it. How do >>> I disable this? Or better yet, configure it so it knows the new time >>> change dates? I'm not seeing any obvious option like "enable Daylight >>> Savings Time" in anything associated with right-clicking the time. >>> Using KDE 3.2. >> >> http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linux+timezone&fr=yfp- t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8 > > I'm not seeing anything that has to do with setting the dates when EDT > starts and EST begins (and vice versa). I've already set the timezone to > Eastern time. That's not the problems. You need to upgrade your timezone files.At least the one for the timezone you are in. You can do this manually if you just want to overwrite the old files. Just ssh into a newer system and copy theirs over to yours. IIRC, you need /etc/localtime and then the file it gets created from. look for /usr/share/zoneinfo dir and replace the one for your location with the new one. I think that's all. Or just ssh into anyone anywhere and copy your location file and then copy it to /etc/localtime. that's all that gets done when you set the time zone anyway. [wes(a)wes2 ~]$ md5sum /etc/localtime 6540624294b1193e22ed7a15692f2de7 /etc/localtime [wes(a)wes2 ~]$ md5sum /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago 6540624294b1193e22ed7a15692f2de7 /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago [wes(a)wes2 ~]$ -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org My Tivo Experience http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/tivo.htm Tivo HD/S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm AMD cpu help http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php
From: djin on 30 Oct 2007 21:10 On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:24:33 +0000, Wes Newell wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:51:13 -0500, djin wrote: > >> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:40:07 +0000, Wes Newell wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:15:29 -0500, djin wrote: >>> >>>> I was an hour late for my class today because Mandrake 10.1 >>>> automatically changed to EST from EDT and I didn't realize it. How do >>>> I disable this? Or better yet, configure it so it knows the new time >>>> change dates? I'm not seeing any obvious option like "enable Daylight >>>> Savings Time" in anything associated with right-clicking the time. >>>> Using KDE 3.2. >>> >>> http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linux+timezone&fr=yfp- > t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8 >> >> I'm not seeing anything that has to do with setting the dates when EDT >> starts and EST begins (and vice versa). I've already set the timezone to >> Eastern time. That's not the problems. > > You need to upgrade your timezone files. At least the one for the > timezone you are in. You can do this manually if you just want to > overwrite the old files. Just ssh into a newer system and copy theirs > over to yours. IIRC, you need /etc/localtime and then the file it gets > created from. look for /usr/share/zoneinfo dir and replace the one for > your location with the new one. I think that's all. Or just ssh into > anyone anywhere and copy your location file and then copy it to > /etc/localtime. that's all that gets done when you set the time zone > anyway. > Thank you for the explanation. I'm not finding any /etc/localtime directory or file. There is a /etc/locale/en_US folder with a file called LC_TIME in it, but I don't know if that's the same. There is a /usr/share/zoneinfo directory, or more specifically a /usr/share/zoneinfo/US directory with a file called Eastern inside it.
From: Wes Newell on 31 Oct 2007 01:09 On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:10:36 -0500, djin wrote: > Thank you for the explanation. I'm not finding any /etc/localtime > directory or file. Look again. It may be a symlink pointing to the file in /usr/share/ zoneinfo directory. > There is a /etc/locale/en_US folder with a file > called LC_TIME in it, but I don't know if that's the same. It's not. > There is a > /usr/share/zoneinfo directory, or more specifically a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/US directory with a file called Eastern inside it. That's the one for eastern time zone (about 3 years ago). They don't use that format now. ~/America covers all of the Americas. -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org My Tivo Experience http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/tivo.htm Tivo HD/S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm AMD cpu help http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php
From: Unruh on 31 Oct 2007 03:40 djin <nospam(a)nospam.com> writes: >On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:24:33 +0000, Wes Newell wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:51:13 -0500, djin wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:40:07 +0000, Wes Newell wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:15:29 -0500, djin wrote: >>>> >>>>> I was an hour late for my class today because Mandrake 10.1 >>>>> automatically changed to EST from EDT and I didn't realize it. How do >>>>> I disable this? Or better yet, configure it so it knows the new time >>>>> change dates? I'm not seeing any obvious option like "enable Daylight >>>>> Savings Time" in anything associated with right-clicking the time. >>>>> Using KDE 3.2. >>>> >>>> http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linux+timezone&fr=yfp- >> t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8 >>> >>> I'm not seeing anything that has to do with setting the dates when EDT >>> starts and EST begins (and vice versa). I've already set the timezone to >>> Eastern time. That's not the problems. >> >> You need to upgrade your timezone files. At least the one for the >> timezone you are in. You can do this manually if you just want to >> overwrite the old files. Just ssh into a newer system and copy theirs >> over to yours. IIRC, you need /etc/localtime and then the file it gets >> created from. look for /usr/share/zoneinfo dir and replace the one for >> your location with the new one. I think that's all. Or just ssh into >> anyone anywhere and copy your location file and then copy it to >> /etc/localtime. that's all that gets done when you set the time zone >> anyway. >> >Thank you for the explanation. I'm not finding any /etc/localtime >directory or file. There is a /etc/locale/en_US folder with a file called >LC_TIME in it, but I don't know if that's the same. There is a >/usr/share/zoneinfo directory, or more specifically a >/usr/share/zoneinfo/US directory with a file called Eastern inside it. Install a recent tzinfo rpm. (eg theone just released which contains 2007h) rpm -Uhv timezone-2007h-1.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime (Assuming you live in New York) Then edit /etc/sysconfig/clock and set UTC=true Then do hwclock --systohc -u Then relax, except of course you have a seriousl y out of date distro which is accumulating serious security bugs.
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