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Bug#749089: tzdata: Local time in London should be UTC+1 now, with daylight saving



On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:27:00PM +0000, Gabor Nagy wrote:
> Package: tzdata
> Version: 2014c-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> This is a new computer and a new Debian install.
> 
> I have set my timezone to Europe/London, and later I have noticed that my clock is 1 h late.

How did you configure the timezone? Was it done at installation time or
done later?

> At this moment the time is 23:20 in London, 0:20 in Budapest.
> 
> KDE clock shows me this: UTC 22:20, London 22:20, Budapest 0:20. London seems to be 1h off.
> 
> $ cat /etc/timezone 
> Europe/London

Can you also give me the output of:

  md5sum /etc/localtime

So that we can identify which timezone is actually configured.

> $ date
> Fri 23 May 22:23:39 UTC 2014

This clearly show your timezone is defined as UTC.


> I think it should say
> Fri 23 May 23:23:39 BST 2014

Indeed.

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