Te curious case of DST

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 11/19/2012 09:02:17 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:28:39 -0800 Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > Suddenly my two (count 'em) computers networked together and
> connected 
> > to the internet have been booting up in DST - i.e. one hour later
> than 
> > the actual time. A pointer to where this setting is stored or can 
> be
> 
> > accessed would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > They are set up to get time via NTP, FWIW.
> > 
> > Of course, it mightn't be DST, but I can think of no better 
> > explanation.
> 
> Not sure what DST does (if DST is Daylight Savings Time, how can it
> boot up one hour later), but have you tried:
> 
> sudo system-config-date 

Yeah, but no joy.

Turns out that the hw clock on both systems was one hour less than the 
actual time. How this could have happened is a puzzle, but the hwclock 
program allowed me to fix the problem.

Thanks to all who replied.