Hi

The time shown by my computer didn't change to daylight saving last
Saturday night.  So I manually set it forward an hour (which has now
forwarded UTC in the hardware clock by an hour, I guess).

I'm running Debian unstable.  The hardware clock is set to UTC.  

/etc/timezone contains
Australia/Sydney

I'm following "16.1 Setting time, time zones and Daylight Saving" of
the Debian System Administration manual.  It says that I may have old
timezone files; libc6 contains these files.

dpkg -l libc6 reveals
ii libc6 2.3.1-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data

I didn't notice any bug(s) relating to daylight saving on a quick
perusal of the BTS.

zdump -v Australia/Sydney|less reveals
Australia/Sydney  Sat Oct 26 16:00:00 2002 UTC = Sun Oct 27 03:00:00 2002 EST isdst=1 
gmtoff=39600
Australia/Sydney  Sat Mar 29 15:59:59 2003 UTC = Sun Mar 30 02:59:59 2003 EST isdst=1 
gmtoff=39600

So, my computer should have changed to daylight saving but didn't.

One of the reasons I noticed was that I downloaded and burnt knoppix
3.1 (a Debian based cdrom demo distribution; pretty awesome -> it
recognised all of the machines I ran it on including a Toshiba
laptop); knoppix set time forward 1 hour.

Any ideas?

Jonathan

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