[Cialug] Daylight Saving Time changes

[Stuart Thiessen]

So how does one make this kind of change on Ubuntu?  ;-)

Stuart

On Jan 4, 2007, at 15:44, David Champion wrote:

> Yeah for stupid legislators. Daylight Savings Time needs to just go 
> away - it's antiquated and useless.
>
> -dc
>
> Stuart Thiessen 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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