Does anybody really know what time it is?
I got up this morning feeling very rested when the alarm went off, lazed in bed for a while, and eventually got up. Andrea commented that her phone said it was an hour later than the clock showed. We wondered if the phone had somehow switched over early... bizarre, especially for a connected device. (You can tell if you're following along at home that we weren't quite awake yet.)
Later I sat down at my computer. That was an hour off too. Could the timezone updates have not made it into Debian/unstable yet? I was pretty sure I remembered that they had... Eventually, I looked at the installed timezone data and it said the switch wasn't till next week. It wasn't until this point that I realized what was wrong. The clock knew when daylight savings time was supposed to be and had switched back an hour. That's not a connected device so it had no way to get updates when Congress decided to pick a different date.
When I realized that it was actually an hour later than I thought it was, I felt obscurely robbed.
Later I sat down at my computer. That was an hour off too. Could the timezone updates have not made it into Debian/unstable yet? I was pretty sure I remembered that they had... Eventually, I looked at the installed timezone data and it said the switch wasn't till next week. It wasn't until this point that I realized what was wrong. The clock knew when daylight savings time was supposed to be and had switched back an hour. That's not a connected device so it had no way to get updates when Congress decided to pick a different date.
When I realized that it was actually an hour later than I thought it was, I felt obscurely robbed.