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DST bugs

written by peter, on Mar 30, 2004 12:07:00 PM.

[summertrain side-image]Sunday morning, a few hours after we went into DST, I noticed this while checking for train delays: the international train was -exactly- one hour late.

I’m just assuming that’s a conversion error somewhere :)

In related news, people parking their cars during the switchover paid one hour too much, in several paid-parking spots.

Can’t we just get rid of this nonsense?

<newsreporter> the night of the switchover, we lose one hour of sleep… but! in return, we get one extra hour of light every night

As far as I’m concerned, that extra hour is costing me one hour of sleep -too-, but oh well :)

Categories: random thoughts

Comments

  • My Sol9 box went to DST just fine with TZ=Europe/Amsterdam in /etc/TIMEZONE Also, there is a syntax to actually specify the switchover time - if any of my IRIX boxen were up right now I’d tell you :)

    Comment by Peter van Dijk — Apr 30, 2011 6:13:09 AM | # - re

  • You know what I hate about Summertime one some OS’s. The ones with the global TZ enviroment variable. Is there any GOOD way to fix this globally without rebooting the machine ? I had the problem last week on my Solaris 9 box.

    Comment by Dimmu — Apr 30, 2011 6:13:09 AM | # - re

  • I do agree - but is, for example, resolv.conf really that different? It’s either a reboot or the trouble of cleanly restarting tons of daemons.. This is actually something that Windows does better, compared to *NIX. Directly related to this is the bafflement new *NIX-users have: `what do you mean, what I ifconfig does not survive a reboot?’

    Comment by Peter van Dijk — Apr 30, 2011 6:13:09 AM | # - re

  • Ah, well CET-1 which I previously had doesn’t imply Daylight Saving. :( Now changed it to Europe/Amsterdam and rebooted the machine. Changing timezones on a Solaris/IRIX box needs a reboot. If anybody else disagrees and has a solution.. Please let me know :)

    Comment by Dimmu — Apr 30, 2011 6:13:09 AM | # - re

  • Euhuh, but you notice timezones earlier then not resolving processes :) But you are right, there are more UNIX thingies that have the same problems. However reboots on UNIX are still less needed than on Windows :)

    Comment by Dimmu — Apr 30, 2011 6:13:09 AM | # - re

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