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.

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