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

[Mat Harris]

Iain Buchanan wrote:
> 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,

Hi,

Excellent keeping GMT in /etc/conf.d/clock and setting /etc/localtime to 
Europe/London did the trick.

Thanks for the help :)

Mat Harrison
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