EU BST-->GMT issue

[Dafydd Rhys-Jones]

If I manually set the time to 1 second after the reversion, it will set it to GMT, however, if I set it before the reversion time, and let it roll over said reversion time, it remains BST.

The first command below shows where I set it before rolling over reversion time, and the command at the end after all the date checks showing reversion did not occur is the command where I set it +1 second over reversion time, and it does set it to GMT.

Dafydd

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-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Lipscomb [mailto:AndyLipscomb at decosimo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:52 AM
To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Subject: RE: EU BST-->GMT issue

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



Dafydd Rhys-Jones  |  Software Test Engineer
F5 Networks
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