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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Winter clock change did not happen
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:34:12
Message-Id: 201010311134.25586.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Winter clock change did not happen by Mick
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 11:24 on Sunday 31 October 2010, Mick did
2 opine thusly:
3
4 > I dual boot with MSWindows and therefore have set up my /etc/conf.d/clock
5 > to:
6 >
7 > CLOCK="local"
8 > TIMEZONE="Europe/London"
9 > CLOCK_OPTS=""
10 > CLOCK_SYSTOHC="no"
11 > SRM="no"
12 > ARC="no"
13 >
14 > I noticed this morning that the clock was still showing summer time (I
15 > rarely boot into MSWindows).
16 >
17 > I had to boot into MSWindows to check what happens there and the clock was
18 > showing the new winter time. After that the Linux clock was also showing
19 > the updated winter time.
20 >
21 > Does this mean that twice a year when the clock changes I need to boot into
22 > MSWindows first to allow the time change to take place, or is there a Linux
23 > side fix for my dual boot set up?
24
25 gut feel tells me windows is broken.
26
27 All my calendars (electronic and dead-tree) tell me that daylight savings
28 switches at the END of today not at the beginning
29
30
31 --
32 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Winter clock change did not happen Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>