Re: What TZ do you use to get right time w/ clockspeed?

Bennett Todd wrote:

> My problem turns out to be that as-shipped, Red Hat sets up for
> deliberately broken, POSIX-compatible handling of leap-seconds,
> where the system clock is supposed to slither around to track them.
> But it looks to me like simply setting the system-wide timezone to
> "right/US/Eastern" rather than "US/Eastern" fixes the problem.

Ah, I understand your complaint now.  Yes, most Linux's are shipped with the 
POSIX TZ settings (I just noticed that my Cobalt boxes share this perversion). 
The link I included even has a section discussion the correct fix for this...

John

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