Australian timezone oddity between two similarly configured FC4 boxes

[Ali Helmy]

I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I just noted this
around a few days ago:

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/AusTimeZone/

Maybe some of the things working on ur pc have Java in them somehow... but
then again, im only shooting in the dark...

On 26/03/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got two FC4 boxes, both have the hardware clock set to UTC (to run
> on UTC time, and they're both showing the same time), both are
> configured for the correct Australia/Adelaide timezone, both use NTP to
> keep synced to real time, both have the same tzdata rpm file installed,
> yet one box is proclaiming it's 2:32am and the other is proclaiming it's
> 3:32am.  No amount of fiddling (without manually setting time, which
> would put the hardware clock out of kilter) is fixing this, can anyone
> offer me some clues?
>
> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
> ZONE="Australia/Adelaide"
> UTC=true
> ARC=false
>
> $ rpm -q tzdata
> tzdata-2005r-3.fc4
>
> Things are being made a bit more awkward, this year, as the summertime
> changeover has been postponed from the usual time.  So some unmodifiable
> gadgets will get this wrong.
>
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