Posted by marduk on Sunday, March 11, 2007 14:22 UTC
I don't know if these are Daylight Savings Time bugs or not, but two weird
things happened to me this morning. First, instead of waking me up at
around 7:00 to be fed as they usually do, my cats woke me up at 8:00!
Obviously their internal clocks had not receieved the timezone data update.
I may have to resort to using an actual alarm clock. Secondly, I booted
my laptop this morning and, upon init, I was told that my root filesystem
had not been checked in 2114 days. I'd seen this happen before, independent
of DST, and, as before, I just let fsck do its thing and continued on. But
then after I (re)booted a second time, about 5 mintues later, it told me that
it had not been checked in 67607 days. Yes, apparently I had neglected to
fsck my root filesystem since 2 February 1822. Shame on me. But I'm not
sure if this error has anything to do with DST. The system clock is fine.
It corrected for DST even though I have the BIOS clock set to local time
(I occasionally boot into Windows XP. Haven't even tried that one yet). I
don't even know how to track this one down. I think I'll start with the cat
bug first