On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, A Mennucc wrote: > today is the first day of daylight saving time in Italy, (and many other > European countries); but something did not work as expected in my Etch box > > > --- brief summary of what I saw happening: > > this morning, when I booted my PC, I looked at the date > # date > dom mar 25 08:34:22 CEST 2007 > that is, it was 1 hour behind ; so I issued > # ntpdate-debian > 25 Mar 09:34:32 ntpdate[3996]: step time server 193.204.114.105 offset > 3599.702392 sec > and this moved my clock 1 hour ahead, and then the date was correct: > # date > dom mar 25 09:34:35 CEST 2007 > > ----- > > my RTC clock is not set to UTC , and maybe this is the cause for what I > saw happening above. > > Is there any way so that people not keeping their RTC to UTC may still > have a correct time on daylight-saving switching days?
Why don't you just keep your RTC to UTC? It worked for me. You say "something did not work as expected". I really do not expect time changes like this to work at all if the RTC is set to local time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
