On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:16:27 +1000
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 09:33:40AM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:26:22 +1000
> > Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > This gets weirder.
> > > 
> > > My original comments were made against my production systems which
> > > are running Fedora Core 4.  My test environment running Fedora
> > > Core 5 gets it right.
> > 
> > My Ubuntu Breezy has it right.
> 
> My breezy has it wrong :(  I didn't alter the standard install. If I
> recall it points at ubuntu's own timeserver?

I don't know. I always run the updates when they are available, so that
might be part of it.

I don't think it is the timeserver since I believe that they generally
report UTC.

> 
> So does the rest of my mix of apples/debian/ubuntu
> 
> I've got a local network timeserver pointing at ntp.syd.connect.com.au
> which seems to be getting the wrong time.
> 
> Is there a timeserver that is giving the right time?
> 
> David.
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> > > 
> > > Howard Lowndes wrote:
> > > > There is a problem with the times zone data files for Linux
> > > > 
> > > > Despite having the correct time zone data files (to accommodate
> > > > the Comm Games), and my workstation being set to the correct
> > > > time zone, it has still reverted back 1 hour, which it
> > > > shouldn't be doing until next weekend.
> > > > 
> > > > tzdata extracts:
> > > > # zdump -v Australia/NSW|grep 2006
> > > > Australia/NSW  Sat Apr  1 15:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Apr  2
> > > > 02:59:59 2006 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600
> > > > Australia/NSW  Sat Apr  1 16:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Apr  2
> > > > 02:00:00 2006 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
> > > > Australia/NSW  Sat Oct 28 15:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29
> > > > 01:59:59 2006 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
> > > > Australia/NSW  Sat Oct 28 16:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29
> > > > 03:00:00 2006 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600
> > > > 
> > > > # zdump -v Australia/Sydney|grep 2006
> > > > Australia/Sydney  Sat Apr  1 15:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Apr  2
> > > > 02:59:59 2006 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600
> > > > Australia/Sydney  Sat Apr  1 16:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Apr  2
> > > > 02:00:00 2006 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
> > > > Australia/Sydney  Sat Oct 28 15:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29
> > > > 01:59:59 2006 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
> > > > Australia/Sydney  Sat Oct 28 16:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29
> > > > 03:00:00 2006 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600
> > > > 
> > > > # date; date -u
> > > > Sun Mar 26 06:31:07 EST 2006
> > > > Sat Mar 25 20:31:07 UTC 2006
> > > > 
> > > 
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