Re: daylight savings time

[M-L <rose_snug@bigpond.com>]

On Wednesday 14 March 2007 21:54, Hugo Vanwoerkom sent this for all our 
perusal:
>---} John Hasler wrote:
>---} > Marty Landman writes:
>---} >> I've got NTP running...
>---} >
>---} > NTP has nothing to do with DST.  The servers send UTC.  It is up to
> the ---} > clients to deal with their time zones.
>---} >
>---} >> Only problem is that I am getting the time as an hour earlier than
> it ---} >> really is, since the new daylight savings time here in the US
> went into ---} >> effect over the weekend.
>---} >
>---} > What Debian version are you running?  Is it up to date?  What is the
> output ---} > of 'zdump -v America/New_York | grep 2007'?
>---}
>---} Thanks John, this is a response in the best tradition of LDU: I did not
>---} know of this command :-(
>---}
>---} America/New_York  Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59
>---} 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
>---} America/New_York  Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00
>---} 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
>---} America/New_York  Sun Nov  4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59
>---} 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
>---} America/New_York  Sun Nov  4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00
>---} 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
>---}
>---} and 'zdump -v America/Mexico_City | grep 2007' where I am:
>---}
>---} America/Mexico_City  Sun Apr  1 07:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Apr  1 01:59:59
>---} 2007 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
>---} America/Mexico_City  Sun Apr  1 08:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr  1 03:00:00
>---} 2007 CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
>---} America/Mexico_City  Sun Oct 28 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:59:59
>---} 2007 CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
>---} America/Mexico_City  Sun Oct 28 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:00:00
>---} 2007 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
>---}
>---} Bingo!
>---}
>---} Hugo

I am not certain this has anything to do with your problem so have been 
reluctant to reply, but I couldn't fix it through tzdata or anything else 
like that either. After a couple of days of hunting and trying a few things, 
still couldn't find a solution. But running quite a few KDE packages, I 
thought I would give that a go and used the control center of KDE to set the 
timezone and it fixed the problem.

Hope this isn't just noise and might work in your case.
Charlie

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