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From: nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE (Nora E. Etukudo)
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 94 13:45:20 GMT
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Subject: Re: What time I have?
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in article <CyDswv.B2y@veda.is>,
from Fri, 28 Oct 1994 11:50:54 GMT,
adam@veda.is also known as "Adam David",
wrote [shorted]:
[...]
> s2887@FB1.FHTW-Berlin.DE (Hartwin Rohde) writes:
>
> >If I link /etc/localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Greenwich or
> >/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin date displays a time of
> >clock-time (which I can see in the board setup or in DOS)
> >plus 8 or 9 hours???? If I link it to
> >/usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT-8 then I get the Berlin local time.
>
> >What mistake did I made?
>
> None. The 1.1.5.1 distribution kernel was compiled for the wrong timezone.
> Both 'timezone' and 'dst' have to be set to 0 in the kernel config file,
^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
> and the kernel rebuilt. You need the kernel sources for this.
I don't fully understand this hint. In my kernel config file is the line
'timezone 8 dst'.
Should it read '0 8 0' (;->)
or 'timezone 0 dst 0'
or 'timezone 0 0'
or whatelse?
Unfortunately, thereis no advice for the syntax of 'timezone' in the
options.doc.
> Adam David <adam@veda.is>
Greetings, Nora (Systemverwalterin).
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