Clock time / timezone strange behavior

[chosen]

I'm in the UK, we're currently in BST summer time. UTC +1


After upgrading to HotFix5 and rebooting, the clock was strange, I had to set it 1 hour ahead of the time I wanted to see on the panel clock. I would have sort of understood if it had been 1 hour behind, like I was setting UTC time.


I did

hwclock -w

to copy system time to hardware clock.


Now after reboot, the clock showed the 1 hour forward (of BST) that I had set it to in Date/Time setting tool.


Now when I set time in GUI, the clock shows the same time that I set it to, so seems normal now.


Can anyone explain the wierdness?


Did anyone else experience the same thing?


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[WizardStan]

Can anyone explain the wierdness?

Evil Dragon used the wrong timezone data files when he created the date/time editor thing. I think it was fixed in HF5 (don't know for sure since I continue to run HF4). If you bring up the Pandora menu->settings->date and time, it should ask you for your location (previously it just asked GMT+/-X) which will correctly set the timezone data, and allow you to set your time properly.