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ggabriel is offline ggabriel
2013-12-11 , 10:24
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#1335
Originally Posted by pycage View Post
Are you sure that UTC is really your timezone? AFAIK the UK uses Western European Time, but not UTC. UTC has no DST and this may explain why alarms go off an hour too early. It works fine for me in CET.

Are there any countries that actually have UTC timezone? AFAIK it's an artificial DST-less timezone to coordinate times worldwide. It just happens to match British time half of the year.
Wait... what? Of course no country is in UTC or GMT or any timezone for that matter... isn't date/time managed in /usr/share/zoneinfo, and you set the country/city in /etc/timezone? So, each country has their own rules as to when to switch to daylight saving, or not switch at all? This changes almost every year (I can see the timezone updates coming through my Linux distro...). I'm not sure how it is with CET In particular (does the EU agree on this for _all_ their countries?)

Am I missing something? Date/Time should be set per country/city rather than timezone, unless you want to change the timezone every time daylight saving changes, which is what I do in my old DSLR, or my PS3 ;-)

EDIT: Just checked my N9... it looks like /etc/timezone doesn't exist, but the same principle applies... time/date set by country/city, please somebody correct me if I'm completely wrong here.
Last edited by ggabriel; 2013-12-11 at 10:28.
 

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