DST did not update
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:26 am
I live in Eastern US, and a couple of years ago our congress fiddled with the Daylight Savings Time dates. We now change the 2nd Sunday in March, and 1st Sunday in November. Last November, my system's clock changed automatically without problems. Yesterday (The spring-ahead date) did not. I did a zdump command and it appears to have the dates correct, but still did not work. What am I doing wrong?
Linux Mint Elyssa-64
david@Legolas ~ $ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2009
/etc/localtime Sun Mar 8 06:59:59 2009 UTC = Sun Mar 8 01:59:59 2009 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
/etc/localtime Sun Mar 8 07:00:00 2009 UTC = Sun Mar 8 03:00:00 2009 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 1 05:59:59 2009 UTC = Sun Nov 1 01:59:59 2009 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 1 06:00:00 2009 UTC = Sun Nov 1 01:00:00 2009 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
david@Legolas ~ $
Linux Mint Elyssa-64
david@Legolas ~ $ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2009
/etc/localtime Sun Mar 8 06:59:59 2009 UTC = Sun Mar 8 01:59:59 2009 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
/etc/localtime Sun Mar 8 07:00:00 2009 UTC = Sun Mar 8 03:00:00 2009 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 1 05:59:59 2009 UTC = Sun Nov 1 01:59:59 2009 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 1 06:00:00 2009 UTC = Sun Nov 1 01:00:00 2009 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
david@Legolas ~ $