From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IW3X4-0007Q2-Fn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:15:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8E57T3b014046; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:07:29 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out2.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.72]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8E53GdG009291 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:03:17 GMT Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D19768B4F for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:03:11 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] getting GMT to use DST From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <46EA0623.30608@genestate.com> References: <46EA0623.30608@genestate.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:36:41 +0930 Message-Id: <1189746401.14252.38.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 57022cbe-fd83-4b1f-8264-2576c2320976 X-Archives-Hash: 48f407c47db11885bbb621b1fd2522f8 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, -- Iain Buchanan Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done. -- James J. Ling -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list