From: Jonathan Williams (jonathw@shubertorg.com)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 15:37:22 EDT
While I'm waiting on responses for the problem I posted earlier, another issue
has cropped up. I searched around, but couldn't find an answer (other than what
I've tried already), so figured I'd ask here.
The new system we got in (Alpha ES80, Tru64 5.1b patchkit 2) seems to think that
we are in Eastern Standard Time, and not the correct Eastern Daylight
Time...making the server's time an hour off. I've tried to correct this by
running "timezone", and in this program it asks you if your area alternates
between daylight savings and standard time, and I say YES to this, but it
remains in eastern standard time. In the man page for timezone, it mentions the
file /etc/svid2_tZ...so here is the contents of that file:
TZ=EST5EDT
TZC="5 dst 1"
At first I was really really confused (now I'm just really confused) because
this system connects to an NTP server for the time...so I figured somehow this
wasn't working...but then I figured that EST EDT is probably just a system thing
based on the date (and the date is correct btw). And it does keep the same time
as our other servers, exactly an hour off. If someone could help me out here,
it would be wonderful.
Jonathan Williams
Unix Systems Administrator
The Shubert Organization, Inc.
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