time setting in debian

[Mike Reinehr]

On Wednesday 22 February 2006 11:20 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 2/22/06, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Solved. Thanks for the input.
>
> tzconfig did the trick, after a little research.
>
> When I first searched the ubuntu forum for various flavors of setting
> the time, I found nothing, and no one responded to my problem. When I
> searched with tzconfig as a search argument, I found several reported
> problems with no direct answer.
>
> The recommendation was to do some apt-get operation that is not
> correct (apt-get --configure -a, not a valid command) followed by
> apt-get dist-upgrade. I did the latter, and a lot more packages came
> in.
>
> Perhaps someone could tell me a little more about dist-upgrade, since
> I've never done anything but 1) install 2) apt-get update 3) apt-get
> upgrade then repeat 2) and 3) ad infinitum.
>
> Anyway, tzconfig now works.
>
> Interestingly enough, the time zone is still US/Mountain (as before),
> but now date and KDE report MST.

	Sounds as if you were missing the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/, which seems 
strange, as they are provided by the libc6 package on my system, but ubuntu 
might have things parceled up differently.

	I'm not real clear on apt-get dist-upgrade myself. There's a little bit of 
information here: 
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html
and some more in 'man apt-get'. A tool that's help me out from time to time is 
apt-show-versions, which will show you which packages belong to what 
distribution.

	Glad you're up & running now!

Cheers,

cmr

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