Daylight Saving Time (DST)

[shhgs]

Hi Jonathan,

Maybe your /etc/localtime doen't get updated.

$ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007

and you will find your DST start and end date.

Download a latest copy and simply overwite it.



On 3/11/07, Jonathan Berry <berryja at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Well, after all the questions about the new DST rules on the list, I
> was surprized when I booted my FC6 box today and noticed that the
> clock still showed central standard time.  I am curious why this is.
> First off, let me say that I dual-boot with Windows, which presents
> some issues when it comes to DST.  It could be that I set some option
> when installing FC6 to not change the clock for DST so that I could
> let Windows keep control of the clock (though I tend to be booting
> Windows less and less).  I do not see any such option in
> system-config-date, though.  I did find this:
> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
> # The ZONE parameter is only evaluated by system-config-date.
> # The timezone of the system is defined by the contents of /etc/localtime.
> ZONE="America/Chicago"
> UTC=false
> ARC=false
> I am not sure what ARC is.
>
> I am unsure whether or not I am using NTP.  chkconfig indicates that
> the ntpd service should start for runlevels 3 and 5.  But
> system-config-date shows NTP to be disabled.  I do not know if this
> should have any effect on things.
>
> Does anyone have any insight into this?  Is there an option at some
> point to disable automatically changing the time for DST?  If so, is
> there a way to change this behavior?  I could fix this a few different
> ways relatively easily, but I was curious about this and thought maybe
> the answer might help someone else someday :-).
>
> Jonathan
>
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