Gentoo and the new DST
As I’m sure you know, Congress decided to change when daylight saving time is observed this year claiming that it will reduce energy usage. Well, a side effect of that is that the clocks on my two Gentoo servers were off by an hour today.
In both cases I had to emerge sys-libs/timezone-data-2007c. On my MythTV box, that seemed to fix the time almost immediately. On my other server, it still seemed to be an hour off until I restarted the clock service:
europa ~ # /etc/init.d/clock restart
* Caching service dependencies
* WARNING: you are stopping a boot service
* Stopping bitlbeed
* Stopping exim
* Stopping syslog-ng
* Your TIMEZONE in /etc/conf.d/clock is still set to Factory!
* Setting system clock using the hardware clock [Local Time]
* Starting syslog-ng
* Starting bitlbeed
* Starting exim
After all the services came back up, my time seemed to be correct.
Honestly, I haven’t looked into why I had to do that… but I figured I’d pass it along in case it was helpful to anyone else. Enjoy.
Thank you for your post about updating the gentoo system clock to match the latest timezone change.
I was using rdate to sync to time.nist.gov, but suprisingly their sync’ing did not help me with the timezone patch.
Much thanks.