11-09-2010
DST is just a way of reporting time/date. You never change the actual time on the system. The sytem takes time from the kernel as the number of seconds since Janaury 1 1970. It then applies rules to that value to display the adjusted time and date value.
Basically it adds or subtracts time from UTC. It does not change the system clock, just interprets.
What time zone is your computer set to be in? Does that timezone have DST or not?
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