As some of us know, the US rules for Daylight Time have changed this
year 2007.  For a concise explanation direct from the source, you can
look at
< http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.html >

The code for dealing with time zones can be found at
< ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ >

This again is the real thing, since it comes from Arthur Olson, who
developed the Unix code for handling time zones while he was at UCSD,
about 3 decades ago.  You probably don't need any of this if your
system has been kept up to date.

To see that your system is (or is not) ready, you can execute the
following shell command:

$ $(locate bin/zdump) -v US/Pacific | grep 2007
US/Pacific  Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007
PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
US/Pacific  Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007
PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
US/Pacific  Sun Nov  4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59 2007
PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
US/Pacific  Sun Nov  4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007
PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800

I found that both my FC3 and FC6 systems gave these answers, which are
correct for the new rules.

   carl
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   carl lowenstein         marine physical lab     u.c. san diego
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