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From: nordmark@mech.kth.se (Arne Nordmark)
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Subject: timezone: Most timezones seems to be 20 seconds off ??!?

Package: timezone
Version: 7.55-1

Am I missing something, or what?

This is on a machine running timezone version 7.55-1:

ano:~> dpkg -l timezone; date +%s; TZ=Europe/Stockholm date; TZ=GMT date
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  timezone        7.55-1         Data files needed to set your local time
858031228
Mon Mar 10 23:00:08 CET 1997
Mon Mar 10 22:00:08 GMT 1997

This is on a machine running timezone version 7.48-3:

vulcan:~> dpkg -l timezone; date +%s; TZ=Europe/Stockholm date; TZ=GMT date
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  timezone        7.48-3         Timezone utilities and data files.
858031229
Mon Mar 10 23:00:29 MET 1997
Mon Mar 10 22:00:29  1997

Note that although the system clocks differ by only one second, the reported
times differ by 21 seconds. The times reported by vulcan are the correct ones.
Both machines run xntpd version 3.5f-4, to keep system clocks synchronized
to UTC.


-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.2
Kernel Version: Linux ano 2.0.27 #1 Sun Mar 2 11:49:55 CET 1997 i586 unknown
libc version 5.4.23

--- Begin /etc/timezone (modified conffile)
Europe/Stockholm

--- End /etc/timezone