Re: [PLUG] Daylight Savings Time Workaround

["Chad Waters" <chad.c.waters@gmail.com>]

On 12/5/06, Dan Perez wrote:
> The law governing when daylight savings time begins and ends is
> changing next year, so all of our Linux servers need to be patched or
> otherwise updated so they know of the new times.  Is there a
> workaround that can be applied to Linux servers to avoid patching
> them?  For example, on AIX systems, we can just edit the TZ
> definition, to include the exact date and time to start and end DST.
> Is there something similar that can be used for Linux?

I'd just grab the updated tzdata package from the distro, but I'd
imagine you want hack it  /usr/share/zoneinfo/ is the place to look.

-C
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