day light saving time happened today
Jerry
jerry at seibercom.net
Mon Mar 11 14:45:10 UTC 2013
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:18:23 -0500
Noel articulated:
> On 3/11/2013 7:49 AM, Fbsd8 wrote:
> >
> > Even though the system is now on DST the date command still
> > displays EDT. Does the date command ever show DST?
>
> EDT = Eastern Daylight Time timezone
> not to be confused with
> EST = Eastern Standard Time timezone
> not to be confused with
> DST = daylight savings time, not a timezone, never shown on a
> computer.
>
> Your system correctly switched to daylight savings time, as verified
> by the EDT timezone indicator. Most likely the clock was already an
> hour slow before the time change.
Just wondering, but do you have NTP running to keep the time accurate?
--
Jerry ♔
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