Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> 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.
The only one of my systems that isn't up to date with this is my
current workstation. I was able to compile the above mentioned code,
and test, and it works fine. What I've not been able to figure out is
how to use it with my existing SuSE 9.0 system. I know, I should
upgrade to another version, but I'm lazy and have other fish to fry.
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