On Sunday 31 October 2010 16:02:14 Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Sunday 31 October 2010 13:29:20 Nuno J. Silva wrote: > >> Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > On Sunday 31 October 2010 10:05:15 Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> >> On Sunday 31 October 2010 09:34:25 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> >> > All my calendars (electronic and dead-tree) tell me that daylight > >> >> > savings switches at the END of today not at the beginning > >> >> > >> >> That's not true in the UK: the switch is done at 02:00 on the Sunday. > >> >> My Gentoo and Ubuntu boxes have switched to GMT correctly this > >> >> morning, and so has the radio-synchronised clock on the kitchen > >> >> wall. > >> >> > >> >> I think Mick does have a problem in his Gentoo setup. > >> >> > >> > :-( > >> > > >> > Thanks Peter, do you dual boot with MSWindows? > >> > > >> > I've noticed this problem on two different boxen, both of them dual > >> > boot with MSWindows. A Gentoo only box of mine switched over to > >> > winter time correctly - so it must be my dual boot set up that is > >> > causing this problem. > >> > >> It is a problem caused by the settings needed for Linux to live with > >> Windows on the same computer. > > > > Is there a fix? I thought that the setting of CLOCK="local" in > > /etc/conf.d/clock was to address the problem of having to dual boot with > > MSWindows. > > That is the setting I was talking about (I wonder why I said > "setting*s*" before, sorry for that). > > It is used to address the problem that Windows expects the hardware > clock to have the local time value (hence "local"), that is, what you > see when you ask the computer what time is it. Because the usual setting > is UTC, that is, time with no timezone and/or DST "shift" - GNU/linux > does the math and shows you your local time. Local time clock forces you > (or the OS) to change it every time there is some DST change.
I think I am getting confused, so why didn't Gentoo change the clock to winter time until after I booted into MSWindows? > In other words, that makes linux use the hardware clock the same way > windows uses it. MSWindows changed it to winter time when I eventually booted into it. Gentoo wouldn't show the winter time until I had first booted into MSWindows. If the setting CLOCK="local" is meant to make Gentoo use the hardware clock like MSWindows does, why it did not behave the same as MSWindows with the DST change? -- Regards, Mick
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