Ubuntu problem with time change?

[Jerry Feldman]

On 11/07/2010 08:35 PM, David Kramer wrote:
> On 11/07/2010 07:17 AM, edwardp-mh2Nk+tgbQM at public.gmane.org wrote:
>  =20
>> Powered on a 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS system this morning, the login =

>> screen briefly appeared for maybe 1/2 to 1 second, then the desktop=20
>> appeared with the regular background, the clock (off by one hour (EDT)=
)=20
>> and the icon for shutdown options, nothing else.
>>
>> Rebooted and everything worked as expected with the time displaying=20
>> correctly (EST).
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this?
>>    =20
> I didn't experience this, but about the time of the changeover, MythTV
> created a zero-byte recording, which pissed me off.
The fall time change is interesting because it repeats an hour. This is
why Unix chose to work with GMT originally. If an application decides to
use local time, it could do strange things for that hour.

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