6 May
2005
6 May
'05
12:32
On Thursday 05 May 2005 5:45 pm, Chris Carlen wrote: > Hi: > > I am in Pacific timezone, but I don't know when it is supposed to be PST > vs. PDT. I have a NTP client running, and my clocks are: > > > ngong:/home/user1 # date > Thu May 5 14:44:23 PDT 2005 > ngong:/home/user1 # hwclock > Thu 05 May 2005 01:44:26 PM PDT -0.461233 seconds > > > Is PDT correct for this time of year? Is this set automagically? There are 2 answers: 1. If you set your system clock to UCT (which is the preferred method), your time will update correctly even without using ntp as long as you don't have much drift. 2. If you set your system clock to local time (because you dual boot with Windows) I have found that without ntp, Linux does not update to daylight time in April and revert in October. However, if you use ntp (as you mentioned) then your clocks should be kept in sync. The only place where this does not work is in Indiana because they can't figure out what timezone they want to be in. (Parts of Indiana are in Eastern and do not adjust for DST, other parts are in Eastern and do adjust for DST, and parts are in Central and those do adjust. recently the Indiana legislature voted to use DST for the whole state, but part of the state will still; be Central while the rest will be Eastern. http://www.timetemperature.com/tzus/indiana_time_zone.shtml -- Jerry FeldmanBoston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9