[Leaplist] daylight savings change

"pberry2" at cfl.rr.com "pberry2" at cfl.rr.com
Thu Mar 8 07:42:04 EST 2007


John Simpson wrote:
> howdy-
>
> just a quick note to remind everybody to check your servers and make 
> sure that they will handle the change to daylight savings time THIS 
> WEEKEND, at 2am on sunday.
>
> you can check a *nix system using a command like this (which doesn't 
> even have to be done as root)...
>
> zdump -v timezone | grep 2007
>
> the "-v" option tells it to print the UTC->timezone equivalences for 
> the last second before the change and the first second after the 
> change, for the indicated timezone.
The TZdata file I grabbed from the server an NIH (and 
expanded/extracted, with tar) contains three files of html and one is 
NorthAmerica.  So, I am confused as to using that in my usr/share/zoneinfo
My system still reports April 1:  will the html be read correctly, and 
is it inefficient to go that route of using an html file?




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