Re: [PLUG] Daylight Savings Time

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

It is handled by the upstream tz database http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm

This change became law (Energy Policy Act of 2005) in early August
2005. The tz data was updated shortly after.

Distributions normal package this as tzdata, zoneinfo, or timezone.

-C

On 2/2/07, Doug Crompton  wrote:
> Is there a general Daylight Savings Time patch for Linux? I am running an
> older version that I do not get updates for anymore. I suppose this is
> handled in the Kernel. Is there a way to at least turn it off?
>
> This is changed to March 11 this year and if I manually change it then it
> will change again on the old date. This is a big problem worldwide,
> especially in equipment that has it imbedded in firmware.
>
> Doug
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