[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 MSWindows to check

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 morning that the clock

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 to

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 at

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 beginning

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 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 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'

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's not