That looks correct to me. The reversion occurs at 0100 UTC (which is to say 2am BST or 1am GMT), so wallclock times from 1am until 2am are repeated at the fall-back. J Andrew Lipscomb, CPA*ABV, ASA Decosimo Corporate Finance 900 Tallan Building 2 Union Square Chattanooga, TN 37402 423.756.7100 Fax 423.266.6671 www.dcf.decosimo.com 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 Dafydd Rhys-Jones | Software Test Engineer F5 Networks P 206.272.5555 F 206.272.5556 www.f5.com D 206.272.6280 M 206.335.1096