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Anyone else having trouble with the format (^M's) in Ennis' email? |
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On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:29:16AM -0500, McCaffrey, Ennis wrote: |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Hans-Werner Hilse [mailto:hilse@×××.de] |
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> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 7:35 AM |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] daylight savings time |
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> Hi, |
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> On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:45:42 -0330 Roger Mason <rmason@×××××××.ca> |
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> wrote: |
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> > My home province (Newfoundland & Labrador) has, in its infinite |
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> > wisdom, decided to adopt daylight savings time from 11 to 04 November, |
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> > rather than the more common dates in April & October. |
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> > Can someone tell me what I need to do to accommodate this change, if |
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> > anything? |
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> Hm, set your hardware clock to UTC and do as root: |
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> rm /etc/localtime |
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> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Newfoundland /etc/localtime |
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> should work... |
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_Standard_Time_Zone suggests |
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> that it was changed just recently. Make sure your timezone-data ebuild |
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> is up to date and installed. In order to get an 2007 version, you might |
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> need to architecture unmask it. |
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> http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm has wealth of information |
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> regarding zoneinfo. |
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> -hwh |
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> Running the following command will tell you how your current timezone is |
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> set: |
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> zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 |
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> For EST the result should look as follows: |
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> ennis@bubba1-rep ~ $ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 |
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> /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 |
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> EST isdst=0 |
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> /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 |
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> EDT isdst=1 |
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> /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 |
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> EDT isdst=1 |
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> /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 |
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> EST isdst=0 |
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> -Ennis |
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