Daylight saving

[Jasen Betts]

On 2012-10-08, F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote:

Changed on the 7th oct but computer did not and when I tried to synch it
with an atomic clock it reverted to old time. did we change it without
telling technical people who seem to think the 28th is the date?

jasen@fozzie:~$ TZ=Australia/Sydney date
Mon Oct 8 16:24:05 EST 2012
jasen@fozzie:~$ TZ=Australia/Sydney date -d "2 days ago"
Sat Oct 6 15:24:09 EST 2012
jasen@fozzie:~$

Looks good to me, what do you have your time locale set to?
from your headers it looks like it's may be set to +1000
which is a static zone, not localised.

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[F Murtz]

Jasen Betts wrote:

On 2012-10-08, F Murtz<haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote:
Changed on the 7th oct but computer did not and when I tried to synch it
with an atomic clock it reverted to old time. did we change it without
telling technical people who seem to think the 28th is the date?

jasen@fozzie:~$ TZ=Australia/Sydney date
Mon Oct 8 16:24:05 EST 2012
jasen@fozzie:~$ TZ=Australia/Sydney date -d "2 days ago"
Sat Oct 6 15:24:09 EST 2012
jasen@fozzie:~$

Looks good to me, what do you have your time locale set to?
from your headers it looks like it's may be set to +1000
which is a static zone, not localised.

GMT+10:00,
the problem turned out that the daylight saving start date was wrong in
my computer for some strange reason, it's now fixed.