That did it: [root@Bip1:LICENSE EXPIRED] config # date -s "Sun Oct 26 00:59:59 GMT 2008" Sun Oct 26 01:59:59 BST 2008 [root@Bip1:LICENSE EXPIRED] config # date Sun Oct 26 01:00:00 GMT 2008 Is there a difference between the way EU runs vs how the US DST runs (revision, wise, not date and time wise). I ask this only because my US DST tests all worked appropriately, along with outlying areas (Virgin Islands, Guam, America Samoa, etc), and the EU one is the only one that acted in this behavior. Thanks! Dafydd 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 -----Original Message----- From: Paul Koning [mailto:pkoning@equallogic.com] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 8:02 AM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Cc: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: FW: EU BST-->GMT issue
"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