Re: [gentoo-user] getting GMT to use DST

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 04:55 +0100, Mat Harris wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have had a machine running for a little while without many problems, 
> until I tried to use ntp to keep my clock in sync.
> 
> I have got my /etc/localtime and my /etc/conf.d/clock to reflect my GMT 
> location, yet all timeservers I try to sync to put me an hour behind. I 
> am in the UK and currently our clocks are forwards, or is it backwards?
> 
> Either way I cannot have my machine out 1 hour for half the year. What 
> should my solution be?

probably because while you are in a "GMT location", strictly speaking
you are not on GMT time.  GMT time does not include daylight savings,
AFAIK, otherwise everyone who referenced GMT would have to alter their
time according to whether both GMT and their timezone was on daylight
savings at that particular time - a big mess, especially for the
Southern Hemisphere, or places like where I live, that don't use DST.

You need to set /etc/conf.d/clock to GMT (if your bios keeps time in GMT
- up to you) and set /etc/localtime to London, or whatever.  I think...
I get confused sometimes :)

HTH,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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