Re: [gentoo-user] Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:05 on Sunday 31 October 2010, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le Sunday 31 October 2010 17:35:56, Jacob Todd a écrit : > Why don't you just use openntpd ( or whatever it's called)? ntp service (such as openntpd or regular ntp itself) doesn't lookup at the time printed on the desktop ! They work in utc time, furnishing a stable base of time. It's the os' jo

Re: [gentoo-user] Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Jacob Todd
Why don't you just use openntpd ( or whatever it's called)?

Re: [gentoo-user] Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 31 October 2010 11:32:59 Mick wrote: > 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. I have a dual-booting

Re: [gentoo-user] Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le Sunday 31 October 2010 12:32:59, Mick a écrit : > 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 beg

Re: [gentoo-user] Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Mick
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 a

Re: [gentoo-user] Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
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 t

Re: [gentoo-user] Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:24 on Sunday 31 October 2010, Mick did opine thusly: > I dual boot with MSWindows and therefore have set up my /etc/conf.d/clock > to: > > CLOCK="local" > TIMEZONE="Europe/London" > CLOCK_OPTS="" > CLOCK_SYSTOHC="no" > SRM="no" > ARC="no" > > I noticed this mo

[gentoo-user] Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Mick
I dual boot with MSWindows and therefore have set up my /etc/conf.d/clock to: CLOCK="local" TIMEZONE="Europe/London" CLOCK_OPTS="" CLOCK_SYSTOHC="no" SRM="no" ARC="no" I noticed this morning that the clock was still showing summer time (I rarely boot into MSWindows). I had to boot into MSWindow