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How does Linux handle DST (daylight saving time?

How does linux handle daylight saving time (DST)

Does the swich happen instantly, like 3'o clock swiched instantly to 2'o clock ? or it changes slowly I ask you this becouse i have large date base on my servers and if this swich happens instantly one hour on entryes in the data base will pe owerwritten

How can I solve this problem ?

Solution

  • It changes instantly:

    Sun 26 Oct 03:59:56 EEST 2014
Sun 26 Oct 03:59:57 EEST 2014
Sun 26 Oct 03:59:58 EEST 2014
Sun 26 Oct 03:59:59 EEST 2014
Sun 26 Oct 03:00:00 EET 2014
Sun 26 Oct 03:00:01 EET 2014
Sun 26 Oct 03:00:02 EET 2014
Sun 26 Oct 03:00:03 EET 2014
Sun 26 Oct 03:00:04 EET 2014
Sun 26 Oct 03:00:05 EET 2014
Sun 26 Oct 03:00:06 EET 2014
Sun 26 Oct 03:00:07 EET 2014
Sun 26 Oct 03:00:08 EET 2014

    This is done on a test machine, and it switched immediately.