>
> Richard Melville wrote:
> > Can anybody explain why this is happening; I'm getting some software
> > failing on time/date issues and I think it might be due to this:-
> >
> > date && date -u returns:-
> >
> > Tue 1 Oct 17:16:01 BST 2013
> > Tue 1 Oct 16:16:26 UTC 2013
> >
> > As you can see instead of a one hour difference I'm getting one hour and
> 25
> > secs. I've tried this a number of times and it fluctuates around the one
> > hour and thirty seconds mark. I have ntp installed but it makes no
> > difference. Generally, the system runs OK.
>
> What do you get with `ntpq -p`
>
> -- Bruce
>
ntp -p returns:-
remote refid st t when poll reach delay
offset jitter
=============================================================
+kvm02-vps.cleve 31.193.9.2 3 u 17 1024 377 25.130 0.444 1.359
-mail1.ugh.no 87.195.109.207 3 u 759 1024 377 25.171 1.858 0.419
*sexrobot.omg.omg 103.7.151.4 2 u 1008 1024 377 20.553 -1.584 1.428
+hemel-hempstead 140.203.204.77 2 u 60m 1024 370 25.493 0.268 0.560
Looks reasonable to me Bruce -- not sure about a sexrobot though :-)
> Assuming /etc/localtime points to a location like
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London, you may test a change to
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Europe/London. If BST=UTC+1 then it's a "leap
> seconds" issue.
>
> Pierre
>
>
I don't appear to have either the "posix" directory or the "right"
directory.
As I was building a stripped-down system I must have followed the
suggestion to
omit them, and now, maybe, this has come back to bite me. I'm assuming that
I can install them now.
Richard
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