[plug] Daylight Rubbish

[Richard Meyer]

On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 16:59 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 16:17 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> > On a different tack - I installed the patch we were told about for rge
> > DST change, and - poof - nothing. I had to set the time forward manually
> > - which is not nice.
> > 
> > I am on SUSE 10.1 - any ideas?
> 
> I was watching an item on ebay and trying to sychronise a snipe with
> JBidWatcher and this time issue has been giving me hell off & on
> today :-(. I then found this link specific to suse and WA daylight
> saving:
> 
> <http://www.novell.com/support/dynamickc.do?externalId=3259426&sliceId=SAL_Public&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=3259426>
> 
> Basically, it says the patch is available from the usual repos.  
> 
> I tried to be selective and not just do an across the board update, but
> couldn't find any specific 'time' patch by name.  So I did a general
> update, stopped trying so hard, and then let the package upgrades take
> effect.  Then, both 'date' and 'hwclock' showed the correct daylight
> saving time and I was able to get my desktop clock correct, too.  One of
> the problems I saw early in the day was that some timeservers seemed to
> dishing up the wrong time for most of the morning (at least to me eyes),
> but that seems okay now, too.   
> 
> Gavin

Gavin,

I've been checking on YOU and the new updater and there is nothing
available - how did you get the fix?


-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
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