Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 29 October 2006 22:41, Simon Roberts wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This seems really silly, but Daylight Saving time is ended, and I can't
> work out how to get my computer to notice.
>
> I thought it would have just known, as has happened in the past, but it's
> still concienciously showing MDT time rather than MST. I tried to use Yast
> to correct this, and the only thing on offer to me are other major
> timezones, nothing for Daylight saving.
>
> It might be part of the puzzle, though I don't quite see how, that I run an
> ntp client (because my laptop's clock is dreadfully inaccurate--I suspect a
> failing CMOS support battery or something).

Do you have your system clock set to local time? If you do, linux won't 
attempt to correct for DST

> Any suggestions?

In linux, always set the system clock to UTC, and leave the timezone handling 
to the OS. Then the DST conversion will happen seamlessly

A short term solution could also be to run ntpdate against a trusted ntp 
server, which should set your clock to the correct time again.

But, again, setting the clock to UTC is the best long term solution