"Arthur" == Arthur David Olson <Olson> writes:
Arthur> I'm forwarding this message from Dafydd Rhys-Jones, who sent Arthur> it before joining the time zone mailing list. --ado
From: Dafydd Rhys-Jones [mailto:D.Rhys-Jones@F5.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 5:38 To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: EU BST-->GMT issue
Hello all, Are there any known bugs revolving around the EU timezone not reverting from BST back to GMT?
[root@server2 ~]# rm -f /etc/localtime ; ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime [root@server2 ~]# date Wed Aug 29 21:42:31 BST 2007 [root@server2 ~]# date -s "Sun Oct 26 00:59:59 2008" Sun Oct 26 00:59:59 BST 2008 [root@server2 ~]# date Sun Oct 26 00:59:59 BST 2008 [root@server2 ~]# date Sun Oct 26 01:00:01 BST 2008 [root@server2 ~]# date Sun Oct 26 01:00:02 BST 2008 [root@server2 ~]# date Sun Oct 26 01:00:03 BST 2008 [root@server2 ~]# date Sun Oct 26 01:00:04 BST 2008 [root@server2 ~]# date -s "Sun Oct 26 01:00:01 2008" Sun Oct 26 01:00:01 GMT 2008
Maybe I'm missing something, but that looks correct. The changeover is at 01:00 UTC, and BST is an hour ahead so 00:59:59 is an hour and a second prior to the changeover (at 02:00 BST or 01:00 UTC). If I set time via UTC, I can see this: $ date -u -s "Sun Oct 26 00:59:40 2008" Sun Oct 26 00:59:40 UTC 2008 $ date Sun Oct 26 01:59:41 BST 2008 $ date Sun Oct 26 01:59:45 BST 2008 $ date Sun Oct 26 01:00:00 GMT 2008 If the change is supposed to happen at 01:00 BST, then indeed there's a problem, but the file claims 01:00 UTC as the changeover time. paul