[LBo] Re: Re: Re: Re: US Daylight Savings Time change

Anerobe anerobe at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 3 14:07:17 CET 2007


Jim Westbrook wrote:

> Some years ago a friend gave me this script.  It was initially used to
> overcome a flaky motherboard which gained or lost as much as five
> minutes a day.  By having my root crontab run this every morning, at
> least the time was right once a day :)
> 
> #! /bin/bash

[snip]

If I understand correctly, the time sync script ensures that your PC
properly reads GMT. But your display setting for local time (including
daylight savings time) is managed separately via
"/usr/share/zoneinfo" (that path may differ on your distro)

Thanks!



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