[Leaplist] daylight savings change

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 08 March 2007 07:42, pberry2 at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> 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?

There's an article on this here:

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877-6163042.html

SteveT