tzdata gone mad? Thursday May 17 8:55:09 2012 Somehow my local clock went mad after playing with a live gnome 3.4 usb image I downloaded from their official site (Fedora based). No matter what I did I couldn't set it correctly again. Back to my regular debian installation (wheezy) I still wasn't able to set the clock to the right time. I have had to reconfigure tzdata to Australia/Perth to get my local time. I'm in Spain :( chals@aelita:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Current default time zone: 'Australia/Perth' Local time is now: Fri May 18 10:44:59 WST 2012. Universal Time is now: Fri May 18 02:44:59 UTC 2012. Before I got (once and again for several days): chals@aelita:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Current default time zone: 'Europe/Madrid' Local time is now: Fri May 18 04:34:39 CEST 2012. Universal Time is now: Fri May 18 02:34:39 UTC 2012. or chals@aelita:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Current default time zone: 'Europe/Andorra' Local time is now: Fri May 18 04:35:14 CEST 2012. Universal Time is now: Fri May 18 02:35:14 UTC 2012. a bug in ntp? or am I missing something about timezones? (Reminder: I'm completely against the fact that only root can set t time on a system) UPDATE (05-18-12): The "suspected" bug on ntp seemed to exist (even though I didn't check the bts) because I upgraded ntp and now it works fine. Thanks guys for fixing it.