[PLUG] Regular time

[Carlos Konstanski]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, linux-yug wrote:

> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:22:56 -0800
> From: linux-yug <linux-yug at xprt.net>
> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Regular time
> 
> On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 11:03 -0700, Joe Pruett wrote:
>>> Why does my computer think we went back to regular time?
>>
>> you probably have not gotten updates for the new timezone stuff.  is your
>> distro a current one?
>
>
>
> I am running ubuntu 8-10
>
> and I just ran
>
> root at desktop:/usr/sbin# tzconfig
> WARNING: the tzconfig command is deprecated, please use:
> dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
> root at desktop:/usr/sbin# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
>
> Current default timezone: 'America/Tijuana'
> Local time is now:      Wed Oct 28 10:05:06 PST 2009.
> Universal Time is now:  Wed Oct 28 18:05:06 UTC 2009.
>
>
> And it is an hour off....
>
> Should PSDaylight time..
>
>
>
> root at desktop:/usr/sbin# apt-get install tzdata
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> tzdata is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
>
> Or is Tijuana the problem??
>
> Linux-yug

Dude, you need to UPDATE the tzdata package. And then you need to pick
the correct timezone. Are you in Oregon? Then try
America/Los_Angeles. President Bush's daylight savings change probably
did not affect Tijuana.

Carlos