FW: DST for Australian timezones not working

Paul Eggert eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU
Tue Oct 23 21:32:27 UTC 2007


"Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]" <olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov> writes:

> DST END: (not working)
> --------
> [root at a10-10-4-61 root]# date
> Sun Apr 6 02:59:59 CST 2008
> [root at a10-10-4-61 root]# date
> Sun Apr 6 03:00:00 CST 2008
> [root at a10-10-4-61 root]#

Are you actually setting your machine's clock to April 2008?  If so,
how?  One explanation for the observed behavior is that you're setting
the clock to one hour past the transition time; that would explain the
symptoms you're observing, without any bug in the tz code or data.



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