How to Check and Update Daylight Savings Time Information in Linux

7 Mar, 2007  12 Comments

If you haven’t already heard, Because of The Energy Policy Act of 2005 Daylight Savings Time in the USA will start 3 weeks earlier at 2am on the second Sunday in March and end one week later at 2am on the first Sunday in November. It’s important that you check your current settings to make sure you don’t have any issues or get your time out of sync. Even if you have your time updated via NTP, you aren’t covered. NTP operates by setting your computer time to UTC or Universal Standard Time. Your computer then calculates the correct local time according to your time zone settings.

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Enabling the root user password on Ubuntu

6 Mar, 2007  No Comment

Enabling the root user password is convenient when you first setup a server. Often there are many procedures that require root access. If you have the root account enabled you will save yourself the time and keystrokes that it takes to emulate the root user with the “sudo” command. You also have the option of disabling the root user when you are done.

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