You got me to the right point with the daylight saving time. I really do not thought it is that trivial. So I am sorry to bother You with this, and disgrace me like that.
But to answer the Questions: I switched my bios clock two hours forward, but of course it had no effect; so everything is actually still all right. My timezone switched in that period to summertime, here is the output: user@host - Current Time: 07:42 :~$ date -d "12:00 today -346 hours" +"Output: %Y.%m.%d__%H Timezone: %z" Output: 2014.03.30__01 Timezone: +0100 user@host - Current Time: 07:42 :~$ date -d "12:00 today -345 hours" +"Output: %Y.%m.%d__%H Timezone: %z" Output: 2014.03.30__03 Timezone: +0200 So, have a nice Day anyway. with kind regards, hanes