Time zones

[NoOp]

On 02/01/2008 08:52 AM, Matías Graña wrote:
> First thing to know is whether the zoneinfo is correct. I'm at a gentoo
> box now, so the following instructions could differ a little bit for
> Ubuntu.
> 
> *) try zdump to see if you're lucky to have your specific dst zone
> correctly handled:
> 
> /usr/sbin/zdump -v Canada/Pacific | grep 2008
> 

On Ubuntu it's /usr/bin/zdump:

$ /usr/bin/zdump -v Canada/Pacific | grep 2008
Canada/Pacific  Sun Mar  9 09:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Mar  9 01:59:59 2008
PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
Canada/Pacific  Sun Mar  9 10:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Mar  9 03:00:00 2008
PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
Canada/Pacific  Sun Nov  2 08:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Nov  2 01:59:59 2008
PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
Canada/Pacific  Sun Nov  2 09:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Nov  2 01:00:00 2008
PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800

For the OP:

1. Right-click on the Date/Time displayed in the upper right panel,
select "Adjust Date & Time". Click the Time zone box. Map appears -
ignore it click in the "Selection" Time zone box. That will bring up all
of the locations.

2. Go here
http://www.timetemperature.com/tzca/current_time_in_british_columb.shtml
scroll down to what you are closest to & match against the selections in
the TZ. For instance, I see 'Dawson Creek' - Mountain Time Zone - no
DST. If you look in the TZ list, you'll find America/Dawson_Creek - I
think that should work. You will stay on UTC - 7h and supposedly not
change come March 9th.