[PLUG] Daylight savings time

[John Jason Jordan]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 05:58:23 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:

>On Sun, 10 Mar 2013, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
>> I'm off to rag on the devs at the Xfce forum. :)

>I've used Xfce since Olivier first released it and have never experienced
>a problem with changing time twice a year. When the Shrub altered the
>transition dates from standard to daylight saving and back we all had
>to update a library (I forget which one new), but that new library
>should be in any current distribution.
>
>   I don't think it's an Xfce issue.

I posted a query in the Xfce Desktop forum, but no replies so far.

My current theory is that there is a library or config file somewhere
that tells it when DST starts, and the date is the old one before it
was moved back. But that doesn't explain why it always worked before.
I've had Xfce on my Fedora laptop for at least a couple of years now,
and I have never had this problem before. It is also strange that the
Xubuntu 12.04 desktop is equally affected. 

I'm pretty sure the problem is limited to the datetime widget in the
panel. From the command line the date command returns the right time,
and ntpq -p tells me that both computers are communicating with the ntp
servers, so their internal clocks are set correctly. For some reason
the datetime widget has stopped updating itself or, if it is still
updating itself, it has the time zone or onset time for DST wrong.