Clocks
Monday 27th March
Well, the clocks changed again, and my server went weird again. I’ve always had problems with Linux and the time due to the number of different places the time is held - usually at least the hardware clock on the computer motherboard and the system clock running within Linux.
Well, I found a page at LinuxSA which finally describes a whole lot of clock-based information in one place. It doesn’t cover NTP, which I use to keep my clock synchronized to the US Navy or whichever other atomic clock my server finds on its travels around the intermagoogle. However, the basics on UTC, timezones and the like are all there.
Oh, and I’ve decided to follow in the footsteps of a family friend who refuses to switch his watch from GMT to BST and back every year. Although I’ve only done it to the server, and I picked UTC as the time zone. So posts and comments will appear an hour out for half of the year.
It’s more than half the year. This only occured to me recently, but we have BST for seven months, and hence GMT for only five.
Sam
27 Mar 06 at 12:22 pm
Oh shush, you.
Yeah… I figured that out - then didn’t know if our Antipodean chums changed at the same time, so they have daylight saving for only 5 months. Or not. Or whatever.
stu
27 Mar 06 at 12:36 pm
So you/your computer will be on what CNN calls “Central European” time (Belgium, France, Germany etc. being an hour ahead of the UK, Portugal, Finland and Estonia). I will take care to notice what Blogger times this comment at..
qaminante
27 Mar 06 at 3:05 pm
Ooh, I am wrong, it says 3.05 when my local time is 17.05 - I forgot that you would be on Central European WINTER time, when we sprang forward for summer as well!
qaminante
27 Mar 06 at 3:06 pm
It should be 2 hours behind central European summer time, 1 hour behind British summer time
stu
27 Mar 06 at 3:09 pm