Daylight Savings Time

Chris Campbell campbecg at cox.net
Wed Nov 4 00:09:16 UTC 2009


Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 15:32 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>   
>> On 11/03/2009 11:02 AM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>>     
>>> Should rawhide have set US East Coast Daylight Saving Time back one hour
>>> on Nov 1 to Standard Time?
>>>
>>>       
>> OK, I see I am different...now I wonder why?  The bios on this machine 
>> DOES NOT use UTC and the UTC box was unchecked during installation. Does 
>> that make a difference?
>>
>> I also see that since setting the time correctly about 5 hours ago, time 
>> has gained 5 minutes.  I recall msgs sometime ago on this list about the 
>> clock gaining time in rawhide, so all I may have been seeing was time 
>> creep and not an erroneous EDST -> EST.
>>     
>
> Does booting with 'nohz=off' fix the clock creep?
>
>   
If there was an issue with UTC vs Not UTC, your time would be 5 hours 
off, not one hour.

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