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Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> writes: |
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> On Sunday 31 October 2010 13:29:20 Nuno J. Silva wrote: |
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>> Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> writes: |
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>> > On Sunday 31 October 2010 10:05:15 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> >> On Sunday 31 October 2010 09:34:25 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> >> > All my calendars (electronic and dead-tree) tell me that daylight |
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>> >> > savings switches at the END of today not at the beginning |
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>> >> That's not true in the UK: the switch is done at 02:00 on the Sunday. My |
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>> >> Gentoo and Ubuntu boxes have switched to GMT correctly this morning, and |
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>> >> so has the radio-synchronised clock on the kitchen wall. |
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>> >> I think Mick does have a problem in his Gentoo setup. |
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>> > :-( |
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>> > Thanks Peter, do you dual boot with MSWindows? |
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>> > I've noticed this problem on two different boxen, both of them dual boot |
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>> > with MSWindows. A Gentoo only box of mine switched over to winter time |
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>> > correctly - so it must be my dual boot set up that is causing this |
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>> > problem. |
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>> It is a problem caused by the settings needed for Linux to live with |
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>> Windows on the same computer. |
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> Is there a fix? I thought that the setting of CLOCK="local" in |
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> /etc/conf.d/clock was to address the problem of having to dual boot with |
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> MSWindows. |
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That is the setting I was talking about (I wonder why I said |
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"setting*s*" before, sorry for that). |
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It is used to address the problem that Windows expects the hardware |
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clock to have the local time value (hence "local"), that is, what you |
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see when you ask the computer what time is it. Because the usual setting |
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is UTC, that is, time with no timezone and/or DST "shift" - GNU/linux |
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does the math and shows you your local time. Local time clock forces you |
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(or the OS) to change it every time there is some DST change. |
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In other words, that makes linux use the hardware clock the same way |
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windows uses it. |
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Nuno J. Silva |
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gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg |