Time didn't change (daylight savings)

Question

First off, I live in the Washington State in the United States. For some ungodly reason are daylight savings is different than everywhere else in the world, go figure. Anyways, this morning at 2 everything was supposed to go forward an hour but this computer didn't. I set it in my rc.conf, shouldn't that be it?
rc.conf
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
# LOCALIZATION
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime"
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="US/Pacific"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
# HARDWARE
# Scan hardware and load required modules at bootup
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
# Module Blacklist - modules in this list will never be loaded by udev
MOD_BLACKLIST=()
# Modules to load at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a module with a ! to blacklist it
MODULES=(iwl3945 !ipw3945 acpi-cpufreq !cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave sky2 snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore !sony_pi sony_laptop !sony_acpi)
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"
# NETWORKING
HOSTNAME="reasons"
# Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available
# interfaces.
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
# - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
# - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
# Note: to use DHCP, set your interface to be "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
wlan0="dhcp"
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
INTERFACES=(lo !eth0 !wlan0)
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
# - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
# Enable these network profiles at boot-up. These are only useful
# if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
# - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
# - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network-profiles
#NET_PROFILES=(main)
# DAEMONS
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
# - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
DAEMONS=(@syslog-ng @netfs @acpid @crond dbus @wicd @hal @alsa @fam @mpd gdm)
#SPLASH="fbsplash"
# End of file

Answer 1

tesjo wrote:
The issue seems to be with the tzdata updates and locale.gen. You should have an out put of zdump something like this
$ zdump -v US/Mountain | grep 2008
US/Mountain Sun Mar 9 08:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Mar 9 01:59:59 2008 MST isdst=0
US/Mountain Sun Mar 9 09:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Mar 9 03:00:00 2008 MDT isdst=1
US/Mountain Sun Nov 2 07:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Nov 2 01:59:59 2008 MDT isdst=1
US/Mountain Sun Nov 2 08:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Nov 2 01:00:00 2008 MST isdst=0
If you don't have the different on/offs for dst. Run locale-gen and check again. If still no check for  /etc/locale.gen.pacnew
Now since it is past Mar 9, you may have to set time manually using the date command or something else, but come Nov it should switch off.
My zdump command shows in the exact same format as you, with the same times and stuff (well not the same times, but the time difference between the 1st and 2nd, 2nd and 3rd, etc). My date command and hwclock both show an hour back.  How should I fix it using the date command? Is there like a force time check thing other than rebooting? rebooting isn't working.