FW: EU BST-->GMT issue

[Dafydd Rhys-Jones]

That did it:

[root at Bip1:LICENSE EXPIRED] config # date -s "Sun Oct 26 00:59:59 GMT 2008"
Sun Oct 26 01:59:59 BST 2008
[root at 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

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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Koning [mailto:pkoning at equallogic.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 8:02 AM
To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Cc: tz at 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 at F5.com] Sent:
 >> Wednesday, August 29, 2007 5:38 To: tz at 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 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

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