Te curious case of DST

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 11/20/2012 11:17:35 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 11/20/2012 10:37 AM, Geoffrey Leach issued this missive:
> > 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.
> 
> Do the machines dual boot Winblows? Winblows keeps the hardware clock
> in local time (rather than UTC like Linux). This can cause problems
> with timezones and DST.

Yes it is dual-booted with Windoze. However, I have Linux running on 
local time for that reason.