[gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Mick writes: > I dual boot with MSWindows and therefore have set up my /etc/conf.d/clock to: > > CLOCK="local" > TIMEZONE="Europe/London" > CLOCK_OPTS="" > CLOCK_SYSTOHC="no" > SRM="no" > ARC="no" > > I noticed this morning that the clock was still showing summer time (I rarely > boot into MSWin

[gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Mick writes: > On Sunday 31 October 2010 10:05:15 Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Sunday 31 October 2010 09:34:25 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > All my calendars (electronic and dead-tree) tell me that daylight >> > savings switches at the END of today not at the beginning >> >> That's not true in the UK

[gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Mick writes: > On Sunday 31 October 2010 13:29:20 Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> Mick writes: >> > On Sunday 31 October 2010 10:05:15 Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >> On Sunday 31 October 2010 09:34:25 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> > All my calendars (electronic and dead-tree) tell me that daylight >> >> > sav

[gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva
nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) writes: > Mick writes: > >> Does this mean that twice a year when the clock changes I need to boot into >> MSWindows first to allow the time change to take place, or is there a Linux >> side fix for my dual boot set up? > > You can write something so that L

[gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Mick writes: > On Sunday 31 October 2010 13:29:20 Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> Mick writes: >> >> > I've noticed this problem on two different boxen, both of them dual boot >> > with MSWindows. A Gentoo only box of mine switched over to winter time >> > correctly - so it must be my dual boot set up

[gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-11-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-10-31, Willie Wong wrote: > Or just cheat like I do. I set Windows to GMT with no daylight saving > offset, so it won't be tempted into playing with my system clock. > Gentoo thinks CLOCK="UTC". I don't boot into Windows often enough to > care about the clock being off by an hour during t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Mick
On Sunday 31 October 2010 13:29:20 Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Mick writes: > > On Sunday 31 October 2010 10:05:15 Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> On Sunday 31 October 2010 09:34:25 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> > All my calendars (electronic and dead-tree) tell me that daylight > >> > savings switches at the E

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Mick
On Sunday 31 October 2010 13:27:11 Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Mick writes: > > I dual boot with MSWindows and therefore have set up my /etc/conf.d/clock > > to: > > > > CLOCK="local" > > TIMEZONE="Europe/London" > > CLOCK_OPTS="" > > CLOCK_SYSTOHC="no" > > SRM="no" > > ARC="no" > > > > I noticed thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Mick
On Sunday 31 October 2010 16:02:14 Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Mick writes: > > On Sunday 31 October 2010 13:29:20 Nuno J. Silva wrote: > >> Mick writes: > >> > On Sunday 31 October 2010 10:05:15 Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> >> On Sunday 31 October 2010 09:34:25 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> >> > All my cal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Mick
On Sunday 31 October 2010 16:18:38 Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Mick writes: > > On Sunday 31 October 2010 13:29:20 Nuno J. Silva wrote: > >> Mick writes: > >> > I've noticed this problem on two different boxen, both of them dual > >> > boot with MSWindows. A Gentoo only box of mine switched over to >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Mick
On Sunday 31 October 2010 17:03:32 Graham Murray wrote: > Mick writes: > > MSWindows changed it to winter time when I eventually booted into it. > > Gentoo wouldn't show the winter time until I had first booted into > > MSWindows. If the setting CLOCK="local" is meant to make Gentoo use the > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 31 October 2010 17:03:32 Graham Murray wrote: > > Mick writes: > > > MSWindows changed it to winter time when I eventually booted into it. > > > Gentoo wouldn't show the winter time until I had first booted into > > > MSWindows. If the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 05:24:23PM +, Mick wrote: > Thank you Graham for your very detailed reply! I understand now why the > problem exists. I have used the registry change suggested by Nuno on Win7 > and > will see what gives next time DST changes. I just hope that it'll work > without

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Mick
On Sunday 31 October 2010 22:24:58 Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 05:24:23PM +, Mick wrote: > > Thank you Graham for your very detailed reply! I understand now why the > > problem exists. I have used the registry change suggested by Nuno on > > Win7 and will see what gives next