| gabriel rosenkoetter on 6 Mar 2007 05:11:55 -0000 |
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On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:01:02AM -0500, Doug Crompton wrote: > I found the following on a search. Did it on my SUSE 7.3 system and it > worked - substituting New_York for Montreal ... One nit (beyond "US/Eastern"'s being mo'betta than accepting "New York" for the Philadelphia area on moral principles): This: > I went to http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm and downloaded > tzdata2006p.tar.gz. I un-tared this file into a temp directory and > executed is actually the wrong time zone data. Not for the US (the Act of Congress--note, not "law"--changing the date for the start/end of US DST was passed in 2005, so the 2006p version is nationally safe), but for some parts of the world. The corner cases in which this matters are absurd (someone in a locale whose DST date changed in that time frame passes you dates in seconds-since-epoch format and you interpret them locally, but explicitly in their locale, and the timespan includes a DST period), but they may exist (you're dealing with someone in such a locale, discussing SMTP transmissions, and they use qmail). -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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