(OT) - Audrey time is always wrong

[Charlie Pendleton]

John,

You are the man!  Easy to implement and immediate gratification.  Are  
there any other "gotcha's" that are worth noting on the outset?

Best,
Charlie-


On Sep 7, 2005, at 10:14 AM, John Brumleve wrote:

> Hi Charlie,
>
> What you are seeing there is the product of a disconnect
> in the Audrey system software.  The disconnect does
> manifest itself in more than one place on the Audrey, and
> some of those can be quite subtle and surprising.
> It is fix-able, however.  Your correct timezone needs to be
> written into a configuration file of the Audrey, something
> that the date/time control panel does not correctly set.
>
> In the Audrey file structure, there is a directory [config]
> which contains a file named [timezone]  The only thing
> within this file should be the text string "EST5EDT".
> Also, In [kojak] there is a file named [go].   In that file is
> a line that should say "export TZ=EST5EDT" Change it,
> then restart.  Pedit is the easiest tool by which to do
> this small-time text editing.
>
> The time server configuration may also need to be changed
> to ones that are more current than those originally assigned
> in the Audrey config files.  But, I doubt that is the case,
> since the time signals are independent of the time zones
> that receive them.  Let me know if the above procedures
> yield any change
>
> HTH,
> John
>
>
>>>> cpendleton at mac.com 9/7/2005 8:07:43 AM >>>
>>>>
> Has anyone else had the problem where their Audrey gets the wrong
> time?  I am EST and the time is always off by an hour.  Even if I
> check/ un-check DST I am still shy by an hour.  Is there any other
> way to program in another time server that may be correct?
>
> Best,
> Charlie-
>
>