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.
If your linux machine does not nothice the daylight saving time change, its timezone is not properly configured. Check your timezone setting and update as needed. On the other hand, some timezone definitions have been changed this year, hence, you might need an update here. If the machine is dual-boot with M$Windows and has the bios-clock reflect local time, then boot to M$Windows and have that change the biosclock. On the linux side, once again, nothing is needed.
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.
Linux (and unix) donnot use local time: internal, all time is in epoc: seconds since 1 januari 1970 00:00 UTC (or GMT). Only the moment the time is displayed for human beings, the time is calculated according to the timezone settings.
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).
ntp also uses epoc, hence no problem there.
Any suggestions?
Cheers, Simon
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