[PLUG] DST

Denis Heidtmann denish at dslnorthwest.net
Sun Mar 11 15:27:36 UTC 2007


Russell Senior wrote:
>>>>>> "Denis" == Denis Heidtmann <denish at dslnorthwest.net> writes:
> 
> Denis> I followed Keith's advice and ran: zdump -v /etc/localtime |
> Denis> grep 2007
> 
> Denis> and got:
> 
> Denis> /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11
> Denis> 01:59:59 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 /etc/localtime Sun Mar
> Denis> 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 PDT isdst=1
> Denis> gmtoff=-25200 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun
> Denis> Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 /etc/localtime
> Denis> Sun Nov 4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 PST
> Denis> isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
> 
> Denis> Which I presume is the right answer.
> 
> Denis> Why does my machine still display a time which looks like
> Denis> standard time?
> 
> Run "date" in a shell.  Does that give the right answer?
> 
> 
I get:
Sun Mar 11 08:22:42 PDT 2007
Strange.  My watch says 8:22, but I did not reset it this AM.  And my VCR, which 
gets time from the transmitted signal shows 8:22 as well. It looks like the only 
thing that has changed is PST -> PDT, an S becomes a D.

-Denis



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