[plug] daylight savings issue

[William Kenworthy]

On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 09:14 +0900, Nikhil Jogia wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> > I found a reboot was the only way to straighten out such inconsistencies
> > - I dont know how linux goes in the rest of the world with DST, but in
> > Perth it sucks :(
> >
> > As far as I know, no fix exists for things like evolution.
> >
> > BillK
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 09:04 +0900, Jason wrote:
> >   
> >> Ok, so I updated /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth with the right file and did everything as needed and previously discussed on the list.
> >>
> >> I've just checked my /var/log/mail.log and it seems its an hour behind still!  so are all my other logs! 
> >>
> >> when I do get a time from the system it reports correctly.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
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> >>     
> No reboot is required, just symlink /etc/localtime to 
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth

wishful thinking - a reboot is definitely needed to get rid of some apps
showing correct time, and others being an hour out.  Even
stopping/starting the services that might be the problem didnt work, the
symlink is irrelevant because if you dont have the symlink it wont
work ... period.

BillK