[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu daylight-saving change didn't ?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/31/2009 07:43 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> Kingsley Turner wrote:
>> There's no posts on the list, so I must be the only one in the world 
>> with this problem:
>> My Mythbuntu (8.10) did not change timezones on Monday morning!
>> Even After 24 hours, it still isn't budging.
>>
>> I just checked the timezone (Europe) is set correctly -
>>
>> (this was at 06:48 in the morning)
>>   root at mediabox:~# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
>>   Current default timezone: 'Europe/Zurich'
>>   Local time is now:      Tue Mar 31 05:48:14 CEST 2009.
>>   Universal Time is now:  Tue Mar 31 03:48:14 UTC 2009.
>>
>> So it looks like it knows we're now in summertime (2 hours ahead of 
>> UCT), but UCT is wrong!
>> Surely the timeserver isn't wrong ?
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions on to debug this further?
>> I adjusted the clock manually, but then a few minutes later it had 
>> re-synched itself back to the incorrect time.
>>
>> My other ubuntu boxes show the correct time.
>>
> Erm, I don't think UTC ever changes - it's the base from which all 
> other zones are referenced, after all. The UK, where I am, is now on 
> BST (basically UTC + 1) and my system reconfigured itself correctly 
> over Sunday night.
>
> Adjusting your clock manually isn't going to help - as you saw it just 
> corrects itself. You need to investigate your NTP settings. You might 
> need to restart your ntp server, perhaps. 

Unless, of course, the OP is running with the hardware clock set to 
local time and dual-booting and has /both/ GNU/Linux and Windows set to 
automatically adjust for Daylight Saving Time.

Mike