[TriLUG] redhat & daylight savings time

[John Beimler]

Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> It doesn't always work, though (and the preferred setting is something
> like America/New_York , not est5edt).  I had the exact same problem on
> my RHL 8 system.  I wonder if the "fall back" only works if the system
> is running when the time change occurs?  All of my running systems fell
> back properly.  My laptop which was not running required a manual
> change.

It may have to do with your hardware clock too.  I have all my hardware
clocks set to UTC on my Linux boxes, so it always has to do some sort of
math to figure out the local time.  I don't see any reason why not to do
that unless your system is running Windows too.  That may be why the
time never fell back, the system was afraid that something else had
already manipulated the hardware clock and set the "correct" time.

Peace.

john