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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Hans-Werner Hilse [mailto:hilse@×××.de] |
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Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 7:35 AM |
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To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] daylight savings time |
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Hi, |
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On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:45:42 -0330 Roger Mason <rmason@×××××××.ca> |
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wrote: |
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> My home province (Newfoundland & Labrador) has, in its infinite |
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> wisdom, decided to adopt daylight savings time from 11 to 04 November, |
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> rather than the more common dates in April & October. |
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> |
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> Can someone tell me what I need to do to accommodate this change, if |
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> anything? |
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Hm, set your hardware clock to UTC and do as root: |
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rm /etc/localtime |
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ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Newfoundland /etc/localtime |
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should work... |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_Standard_Time_Zone suggests |
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that it was changed just recently. Make sure your timezone-data ebuild |
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is up to date and installed. In order to get an 2007 version, you might |
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need to architecture unmask it. |
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http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm has wealth of information |
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regarding zoneinfo. |
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-hwh |
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Running the following command will tell you how your current timezone is |
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set: |
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zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 |
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For EST the result should look as follows: |
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ennis@bubba1-rep ~ $ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 |
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/etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 |
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EST isdst=0 |
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/etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 |
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EDT isdst=1 |
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/etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 |
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EDT isdst=1 |
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/etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 |
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EST isdst=0 |
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-Ennis |
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