On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:07:11 -0800, Manimoto wrote:

> I did an upgrade from 10.2 -> 11.0, i.e. did not do a complete
> reinstall.
> Everything went well, and the system is running with no problems.
> However two days ago when Ontario, Canada switched from summer time,
> the time was not automatically updated on the pc. This also happened on
> a friend's pc
> on which I had installed S11.0 from scratch.
> This has never happened before, and I have been using Slackware since
> version 3 -
> I think I still have diskettes with v3.5 :-)
>
> Anyone else experience this?
>
> In /etc there is a a soft link "localtime-copied-from" pointing to
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern. There is also a regular file called
> localtime.
>
> I set the time back on the pc to before the time change ; reran
> "/usr/sbin/timeconfig" ;
> changed the pc time to after the summer hours change over and still the
> pc did not
> automatically update the pc time.
>
> I don't know enough to investigate this. All I have on system is man
> pages for tzselect and tzfile.
> Even using tzselect does not solve this.
>
> Anyone have a clue how to fix this?
>
> THX

I've found the most reliable fix to be to run ntp.