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.
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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