[Cialug] Daylight Saving Time changes

[Tim Wilson]

Don't feel alone, it seems like a lot of people haven't heard about
this.  I'm amazed at how little/no press this is getting considering
it is a little over 2 months away.  It could be a big deal for some
industries.  I guess they'll find out, Starting March 11th.

On 1/4/07, Stuart Thiessen <sthiessen at passitonservices.org> wrote:
> I thought the same.  I googled about it and found this:
>
> New Federal Law—Springing Forward in March, Back in November
>
> Months after Indiana passed the law that got it in step with the rest
> of the country, the federal government announced a major change in
> Daylight Saving Time. In Aug. 2005, Congress passed an energy bill that
> included extending Daylight Saving Time by about a month. Beginning in
> 2007, DST will start the second Sunday of March and end on the first
> Sunday of November.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart
>
> On Jan 4, 2007, at 15:19, Jerry Heiselman wrote:
>
> > 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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-- 
Tim