Re: time offset

Many Thanks for your fast reaction Mr. Manske

but changing the timezone to MET in my SuSE 5.1 Linux installation does
not change the time said in the ftpget-message. So there is a fix
offset, but I don't know where.

BTW the 'date' command gives the right date and time.

>
> In message <364DB3C9.5142@mail.speechmail.com>
> Rolf Schmidt <rolf@mail.speechmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This is a nice message but a lie. Then it is now 17:13.52 in germany and
> > of course still saturday! So ftpget or squid are 5 hours ahead.
> What does `date` say?
> Something like "Sat Nov 14 17:13:52 MET"?
> ^^^
> If not, you haven't set up your timezone correctly. On *BSD systems it's
> often a link /etc/localtime->/usr/share/zoneinfo/MET - if your computer
> is located in this TZ of course.
>
> > The computer of course has the right settings and the hardware clock is
> > running in local time, which is MEZ.
> Why? My computers (running NetBSD+RISC OS) all have their hardware clock
> set to UTC/GMT/ZULU/+0. IIRC only DOS (windows?) cannot cope with
> timezones and their offsets correctly and demands hardware clocks
> running localtime.
>
> BTW:
> It would be a nice thing, to get squid reporting in local time instead
> of GMT.
>
> Bye,
> Thilo.
> --
> Mir ist mein Signature entlaufen :-(. Wer es findet, sende es bitte an
> Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE zurück. Danke!
Received on Sat Nov 14 1998 - 11:12:36 MST