Debian bug report logs - #1789 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1789: time zone files not right Reply-To: Raul Miller , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Raul Miller Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 19:33:01 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: timezone X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Wed, 01 Nov 1995 19:33:01 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Wed, 01 Nov 1995 19:25:12 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0tAiin-0005hNC; Wed, 1 Nov 95 11:21 PST Received: from rdm.legislate.com ([192.77.155.13]) by pixar.com with SMTP id AA10602 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 1 Nov 1995 11:20:45 -0800 Received: by rdm.legislate.com id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Wed, 1 Nov 95 15:23 EST Message-Id: Date: Wed, 1 Nov 95 15:23 EST From: Raul Miller To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Package: timezone Version: 7.8-1 It looks like something's wrong with the timezone files. I started poking around when I noticed that my time was daylight savings time. I could have sworn that it was set right yesterday (I remember setting a battery powered clock by my computer -- this clock is set at the right time today, but my computer is an hour ahead). When I looked in /etc/localtime, it was a file -- not a soft link. I don't know if this is something I did, but it makes it difficult for me to determine precisely which time zone I had set (I deleted the file and moved in a soft link to EST5EDT -- which I presume is the proper zone file -- but this didn't fix the problem). Perhaps I need to reboot my system (or maybe log out or log back in) to have a new zone file take effect -- however, this was not obvious from browsing any of the manual pages that I've gone over today. Anyways, I started running zdump on the files in /usr/lib/zoneinfo, and noticed something odd -- when I was in the zoneinfo/US directory, all of the files in the US directory are GMT. Then, I popped back to the zoneinfo directory and did a zdump on all files using find -- this time they came out correct. Furthermore, there appears to be a complete duplicate set of zone files under /usr/lib/zoneinfo/right/ -- though I've not analyzed this very closely. Finally, on a hunch, I copied the EST file name to a different name (foo), zdump also reported this as a GMT file. Since this investigation, I believe I've found my problem (my DOS clock is not set to GMT, so I'm using `clock -a` in /etc/init.d/boot -- but I'll report that as a separate bug). Here's the bugs, as I understand them: (0) zdump is in /usr/sbin -- though you don't need to be root to find it useful. (1) either zdump is broken or the zoneinfo files are broken -- they depend on the file name rather than file contents to determine their time zone. This makes /etc/localtime rather useless, because it conceals the file name. -- Raul ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Raul Miller Subject: Bug#1789: Acknowledgement (was: time zone files not right) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#1789" or "Re: Bug#1789" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 19:43:03 GMT Wed 01 Nov