[Cialug] Daylight Saving Time changes

[Jerry Heiselman]

I must be out of the loop.  What new legislature was recently passed
regarding Daylight Saving Time?

On 1/4/07, Nathan C. Smith <smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> I was just researching that law over lunch - from the perspective of what
> Microsoft will do for older operating systems like NT Server.  There is
> probably a registry setting somewhere that only needs to be tweaked.
>
> I wonder if there were consumer electronics lobbyists behind the new law.
> "Update?  no, that ${COOL_GADGET} can't be updated, you will have to get a
> new one"
>
> -Nate
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Wilson [mailto:tim_linux at wilson-home.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 1:49 PM
> > To: cialug at cialug.org
> > Subject: [Cialug] Daylight Saving Time changes
> >
> >
> > With the upcoming changes to Daylight Saving Time, I'm curious what
> > others have done to prepare for this.  At work, we have several older
> > Unix/Linux machines, and of course they seem to have different ways of
> > handling it.  Some allow setting a long string in the TZ environment
> > variable, while others seem to require downloading new zoneinfo files.
> >  For the latter, I think they can be found at
> > http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm.  These are the source files, so
> > it appears you need to run zic on them.  Has anyone done this?
> >
> > --
> > Tim
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