Where's the time?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:19:54PM -0500, Merv Curley wrote:
> My memory has deserted me and so have the notes I thought I kept.
> 
> One new distro I installed, displays, the correct EST time on this kde 
> desktop. On another computer the same distro seems to display  EST as GMZ + 
> 10.  [ Debian based distro]
> 
> /etc/timezone on both is America/Montreal.  The clock applet on the task bar 
> only has a check in the Timezone ;Toronto box.  My outgoing messages are 
> timestamped wrong and I've had one request to get it fixed,  or else. 
> 
> Must be something else involved and I just can't recall????

Try running tzsetup and see if it is actually set right.  Also check
what timezone your kde desktop is set for.  I also believe there are
multiple time zones in the world abreviated EST.  I think there is such
a thing as European Standard Time, but I could be wrong.  I don't think
posix uses the same abreviations for any of them, but the display of the
time zone may still do so.

Lennart Sorensen
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