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Topic: [Solved]Daylight savings adjustment

Here in the UK, the clocks have just been set back one hour, so I'd like to know how to adjust this. I have seen the numerous threads on the forum about changing timezones, but my timezone is already correct. If I have it set as either GMT or London, it is one hour ahead.

Is there any way to change this manually?

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  • ali
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Re: [Solved]Daylight savings adjustment

sudo date --set hh:mm:ss (24h format)

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Re: [Solved]Daylight savings adjustment

Perfect, thanks alexander.

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Re: [Solved]Daylight savings adjustment

it could be some other setting but i've previously used 'sudo ntpdate -u ntp2a.mmc.ac.uk' and the clock updated itself automatically this time so I'm guessing some part of linux is aware of daylight saving, of course it is possible that that I have a long lost cron job set some where roll

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Re: [Solved]Daylight savings adjustment

I thought it was just called "Summer Time" on your side of The Pond? tongue

We don't go back to Standard Time until next week; I'll have to keep an eye on the clock between 2:00 and 3:00 Saturday night/Sunday morning and see if it automatically changes for us.

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Re: [Solved]Daylight savings adjustment

What's odd is that my laptop, using 32bit Statler, did make the change automatically, and due to conflicts it has not been updated since alpha 1. My desktop which is regularly updated from an alpha 2 64bit install, failed to change.

I can't think of anything I've done on either machine to adjust time prior to this.

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Re: [Solved]Daylight savings adjustment

I can confirm that on Statler A1 time changed automatically...

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Re: [Solved]Daylight savings adjustment

that explains it, i installed from alpha 1 aswell


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British summer time, theres a difference wink

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Re: [Solved]Daylight savings adjustment

my alpha 2 automatically changed

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Re: [Solved]Daylight savings adjustment

alexander wrote:

my alpha 2 automatically changed

So did mine. Not immediately but after reboot.

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Re: [Solved]Daylight savings adjustment

Mine changed automatically this weekend; I had put the netbook on "standby" sometime around 12:30AM EDT, and the clock fell back to EST when I woke it up at around 3:20/2:20AM.

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