[Leaplist] Daylight Savings Time Change Question

[Kyle Gonzales]

FC6 came with the correct tzdata file when it was released.  I know
that not everyone here has updated to FC6, so for those people running
older Fedora, as well as RHEL 3 & 4 (especially if you have a machine
installed longer than a year ago):

Make sure to update tzdata and glibc-common, then run the following as root:

"/usr/sbin/tzdata-update -- tzdata"

The command will return almost immediately.  You can then verify that
the timezone you have selected has the DST changes by doing the
following:

"zdump  -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007"

and seeing what times DST are activated and deactivated.

On 2/7/07, Jim Hartley <xjimh at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> I'm still new to all this packages and updates stuff, so I'm still not
> sure what is meant here. If I am running FC6 and am continuously getting
> updates every day from Fedora and/or Fedora Extra and/or Livna, will I
> get this automatically? Or do I have to take some specific action?
>
> Quite honestly, my normal expectation for fixing something like this
> would be instructions to go into file "/etc/timezone/foo.bar/config" and
> change a couple of lines with vi. Which is probably why I'm confused.
>
> Jim Hartley