HAH not updating to BST
26 March, 2012 - 12:36
I am in the UK and clocks have just gone forward 1 hour to BST but HAH GUI reports old time as does the "date" command on the command line. My Time Server is set to uk.pool.ntp.org and the /etc/TZ file contained GMT0BST-1 . I have tried varying this setting and rebooting, but the time does not change. Also I tried the command line TZ="GMT0BST" date or TZ="GMT0BST-1" date or TZ="GMT0BST+1" date and they all report the same date & time (i.e. 1 hour out). I have started the Googlecal service as someone else suggested and this did not help.
Anyone else have this problem?
Chris Swift
26 March, 2012 - 13:46
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All timezones are defined in
All timezones are defined in terms of UTC. So to define the BST timezone you need to say "I'm BST and I'm -1 hours behind UTC". I think you are confusing it with 'I'm BST so must -1 hours behind - so why am I subtract yet another from it?'. It's your logic that is off.
Anyway glad that is working, talk to you 6 months when you need to change it back :)
Brett
Try just using BST-1 in /etc/TZ then. But this means you will need to adjust this again when the clock move forwards.
http://www.homeautomationhub.com/content/british-summer-time
Brett