[brlug-general] DST changes and Linux

[Dustin Puryear]

Cool, thanks.

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Friday, February 9, 2007, 6:05:01 PM, you wrote:

> IBM has a write-up of the problem in case anyone is wondering:

> http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=T1010301&uid=isg3T1010301&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en

> In short, the feds extended daylight savings time 4 weeks starting in 
> 2007.  It's gonna start on March 11 instead of April 1.  So we have to
> update every device in the country that keeps track of time, haha.

> My Kubuntu desktop looks good, but i apt-get occassionally.

> Our RHEL3/4 boxes should be ok as there is an official RedHat fix. 
> Haven't looked at the RHEL2.1 box yet.  I have a few Fedora Core 2 boxes
> around too, but the latest tzdata RPM from fedoralegacy.org seemes to be
> updated.  But i would go out and snag a copy now!  Looks like fedoralegacy
> officially shutdown on Wednesday.  Time to convert those boxes to CentOS
> hehe.

> ray


> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Eric Ortego wrote:

>> On 2/9/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote:
>>> So the changes to Daylight Savings Time (DST) comes into play Real
>>> Soon Now, right? What is everyone doing?
>>
>> Im not sure about the others the Gentoo timezone data was updated
>> sometime last year to reflect the changes. Anyone with a gentoo system
>> not up to date should at least run:
>> 'emerge -u sys-libs/timezone-data'

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