Nicolas Alvarez escribió el 19/10/08 02:13:
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?
Yes :-)
what is your /etc/localtime?
What am I supposed to do with it? I ran "cat" and it filled my terminal with binary junk.
You should run a binary compare to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires ... in a terminal: $ cmp /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires if it is silent, it's OK (they're identical)
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*.
quick and dirty NO WARRANTIES: login to an account with administrator rights 1) backup the registry (just in case) 2) download ms-tz-argentina-2008-10-16.reg from http://wiki.clueless.com.ar/ActualizarTimezonesConTzdata?action=AttachFile&d... (this is a copy I made from the tzupdate.reg referred in MS's pdf instructions). 3) double-click on it and it will ask if you are sure you want to modify the registry, say yes (you have a backup anyway, right? 4) double click on the clock in the systray, the "set date and time" window will open 5) select the "time zone" tab 6) choose "(GMT-03:00) Buenos Aires" 7) make sure the "adjust dst" (or whatever it's called) checkbox in that window is CHECKED 8) press OK that should be it (no need to reboot).
(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.)
I don't know anything about this... the pdf speaks quite a lot about handling outlook which, since I don't use I didn't care... at least *you* should read the instructions and try to make some sense of it... -- Mariano Absatz - "El Baby" baby@baby.com.ar www.clueless.com.ar -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I started out with nothing & still have most of it left. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- * TagZilla 0.066 * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org