Re: DST: Same procedure as every half-year?

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 15:03:25 +0100, Dan H wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:46:06 +0100 Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> 
> > I'm running Lenny in CET and the change to GMT+1 (from +2) work
> > perfectly. I didn't do anything special. The time was correct when I
> > checked on Sunday morning.
> 
> I'm running Etch, and the problem somehow went away when I started the
> machine a second time. I'm not aware of having done anything special,
> except running "tzconfig" without making any changes.
> 
> I guess this is a hard-to-chase bug (if it's a bug indeed) because in
> conjunction with ntp it can only be reproduced twice a year ;-)

You can check your timezone settings and the scheduled changes like this:

$ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
/etc/localtime  Sun Mar 25 00:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 25 01:59:59 2007 CET isdst=0 gmtoff=3600
/etc/localtime  Sun Mar 25 01:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 25 03:00:00 2007 CEST isdst=1 gmtoff=7200
/etc/localtime  Sun Oct 28 00:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 02:59:59 2007 CEST isdst=1 gmtoff=7200
/etc/localtime  Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 02:00:00 2007 CET isdst=0 gmtoff=3600

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