EU BST-->GMT issue

Andy Lipscomb AndyLipscomb at decosimo.com
Thu Aug 30 14:52:23 UTC 2007


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

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   Are there any known bugs revolving around the EU timezone not reverting from BST back to GMT?

[root at server2 ~]# rm -f /etc/localtime ; ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
[root at server2 ~]# date
Wed Aug 29 21:42:31 BST 2007
[root at server2 ~]# date -s "Sun Oct 26 00:59:59 2008"
Sun Oct 26 00:59:59 BST 2008
[root at server2 ~]# date
Sun Oct 26 00:59:59 BST 2008
[root at server2 ~]# date
Sun Oct 26 01:00:01 BST 2008
[root at server2 ~]# date
Sun Oct 26 01:00:02 BST 2008
[root at server2 ~]# date
Sun Oct 26 01:00:03 BST 2008
[root at server2 ~]# date
Sun Oct 26 01:00:04 BST 2008
[root at server2 ~]# date -s "Sun Oct 26 01:00:01 2008"
Sun Oct 26 01:00:01 GMT 2008



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