[Cialug] Daylight Saving Time changes

[Nathan C. Smith]

Apt-get update
Apt-get upgrade


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Thiessen [mailto:sthiessen at passitonservices.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 4:02 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Daylight Saving Time changes
> 
> 
> 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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