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

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> 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

The problem is some ambiguity in the time zones names. There is (for the
US) a whole suite of US/region time zones. Then later, there is
America/City, or in your case Canada/TZ. If you select the latter, your
time will change. If you select the former, it will not.

As for the other user's suggestion about using ntp, that will have no
effect as it pulls in UTC always and only.

Use the timeconfig program.

--
Peter