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. > > Any help much appreciated. > > Richard >
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 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
