[plug] Daylight Rubbish

[Gavin Chester]

On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 19:19 +0900, Richard Meyer wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 18:44 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 18:21 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 16:59 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 16:17 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:

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> Ok, I did manage to upgrade my timezone package, BUT - the D*MN thing is
> out by one hour THE WRONG WAY.
> 
> I could scream with frustration ....
> Let us say for instance that it is now 19h16 WDT, so the hardware clock
> should be saying 18h16 (set for local time), and the time display should
> say 18h16, but it gives me an HOUR EARLIER ......

I hate it when things get like this, don't you :-(  I don't know what to
say, but whether I go via the gui or cli my clocks are all correct at
the mo'.  'hwclock' and 'date' all show the correct WST, agreeing with
my desktop clock.  I did fiddle with commands like ``/sbin/hwclock
--systohc --utc'', and the like.   Now it's working I don't want to
fiddle and break it again ;-)

> And the "date" command gives me the hardware time. How did Bill Gates
> get into the fix team?  ;-)

LOL.  Seriously, I reckon you'll have to dig deeper into local vs UTC
time in both hwclock and your gui.  Sorry, can't be more helpful than
that, but I went through lots to get this right and I can't say what
actually did it the best for me :-/

Gavin