From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PCUIl-0002Cs-OV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:34:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 51755E068C; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:33:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 170C4E068C for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:33:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyb6 with SMTP id 6so1497860eyb.40 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 02:33:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Qf2UfSeHkWBpbjTUrcKYOc525b4dKg3YyXLqSSPB/1k=; b=ZghBnQ5tXHcTDCaQJMcviN+bhwaSnCiUivaE+ZfFY7lF8sRzZEmkql7cGgGWlMmaaS I2IA+hNVIWhU3fl/ZTHFOnTLRnSqbO7WERdSPPNyV8gn3YWSRFdKQLFAMVHxZO53CF9g N44RBFbbLO99wP1ehdWgnRgUqHKo7bwymEaQs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=P8ZXsbTUC9CDjKN0hEfdWjXtuDVXl5BvmjkGr2ODrd1ljFbQki7RtYzxONc1pz+pVR slR+SOi9lasGjgoxffF+GiTTQZrzAk/GgUgI7FZf+1qP7n+fTMJLz4FR8ipBWPEIs19s DjXfNg0R3rNY9zACgkQIw9xfhdrcxYw7O9nfU= Received: by 10.213.8.65 with SMTP id g1mr7080277ebg.65.1288517633400; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 02:33:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-42.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q58sm3214020eeh.3.2010.10.31.02.33.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 31 Oct 2010 02:33:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Winter clock change did not happen Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:34:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-ck; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Mick References: <201010310924.11434.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201010310924.11434.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010311134.25586.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6b8e06cd-9c7f-4ccf-8b80-19cbd141a393 X-Archives-Hash: 92c765e5caadcdf4bc4b91cf520b2c1a Apparently, though unproven, at 11:24 on Sunday 31 October 2010, Mick did opine thusly: > I dual boot with MSWindows and therefore have set up my /etc/conf.d/clock > to: > > CLOCK="local" > TIMEZONE="Europe/London" > CLOCK_OPTS="" > CLOCK_SYSTOHC="no" > SRM="no" > ARC="no" > > I noticed this morning that the clock was still showing summer time (I > rarely boot into MSWindows). > > I had to boot into MSWindows to check what happens there and the clock was > showing the new winter time. After that the Linux clock was also showing > the updated winter time. > > Does this mean that twice a year when the clock changes I need to boot into > MSWindows first to allow the time change to take place, or is there a Linux > side fix for my dual boot set up? gut feel tells me windows is broken. All my calendars (electronic and dead-tree) tell me that daylight savings switches at the END of today not at the beginning -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com