Mariano Absatz - El Baby wrote:
Nicolas Alvarez escribió el 19/10/08 01:04:
This is going to be a disaster again, anyway. The date just arrived, and my clock didn't change.
are you in the DST applying region?
Buenos Aires.
what version of tzdata are you using?
2008g-0ubuntu0.8.04. I upgraded to version h (from hardy-proposed) and it still didn't update the KDE clock, and 'date' says I'm in ART, but from a direct terminal (a real TTY, not an X-based console emulator) it did give the right time (ARST). I downgraded back to 'g', and actually I still see the same (ARST on a tty, ART on KDE clock and running 'date' on a terminal emulator). Do I have to *logout* to see the change?
what is your /etc/localtime?
What am I supposed to do with it? I ran "cat" and it filled my terminal with binary junk.
And I'll bet BIG money that Microsoft didn't get an update in time either.
The Microsoft procedures are hell... checkout the instrucions at http://www.microsoft.com/argentina/dst/actualizacion.aspx it includes a link to a 20 page pdf...
It couldn't be any more manual or cumbersome...
I'm wondering what should I tell everyone I know who uses Windows? Clearly I can't just give them the link to microsoft, since it's such a mess. But I definitely don't want to let them naively *change the clock*. (I'm a contributor to an open source software that REALLY doesn't like the clock changing. We had a user on the forum who apparently used Windows's calendar as a vacation planner, changed the system date a few days forward, then back to the right one, and the program completely stopped working. Presumably would have suddenly started working again after those "few days" passed.)