Daylight savings

[Net Llama!]

On 04/04/04 09:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I've got an old RedHat 7.3 that works well for me, but I've
> always had a bit of trouble about the daylight savings stuff.
> 
> The machine is set to PDT, but does not adjust automatically,
> so when daylight savings is off, things get weird.  I cannot
> figure out how to get it set properly.  Any clues?
> 
> What I know:
> 	/etc/timezone says "America/Los_Angeles" and this
> 	   appears to name a subdirectory and file of
> 	   /usr/share/zoneinfo, pointing to a binary file.
> 	I do not seem to run with a TZ or TIMEZONE environment
> 	   variable
>         The 'tzselect' program does not give me any options
> 	   related to daylight savings.
> 
> What I don't know:
> 	where the PST/PDT choice is made, or why PDT is shown
> 	   in the output of the 'date' command, other than
> 	   that I remember their being such an option during
> 	   the initial software installation.

You sure that the hwclock isn't setting it?


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