FYI: /etc/localtime and changing to summer time

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> 
> Mary Ellen Foster wrote/ha scritto, On/il 28/03/2004 10:26:
> 
> >If you, like me, are in the part of the world that changed to daylight 
> >saving time overnight last night (Europe, at least; US and Canada are next 
> >week), and your computer didn't make the change automatically, here's one 
> >possible explanation and fix.
> >
> >Check the permission on /etc/localtime -- it should be -rw-r--r--. Due to a 
> >bug in the Redhat time-configuration applet, it may instead be -rw------, 
> >in which case the time zone rules can't take effect in any account other 
> >than root.
> >
> >To resolve this, do "chmod a+r /etc/localtime" as root, and you should get 
> >the correct timezone. The bugzilla report on this problem is 
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109803, and it looks 
> >like it's fixed in future versions.
> >
> >Obviously, this problem is especially easy to miss during the winter in the 
> >UK. :)
> >
> >MEF
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Another issue might be that you are running a twin O.S. computer with 
> Windows.
> I have to start Windows then re-boot and time is fine...
> Any other way to have summer time set properly in a computer like this??
> 
> -- 
> 
>  Antonio M.
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> 
The easy way around this is to setup a NTP server (Network Time
Protocol) and make one server your NTP server. Then all your other
systems can sync their time with your time server. 

Fow Windoze machines you can download a program called NetTime which can
be found at SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/projects/nettime/

For the configuration of NTP then use the following HowTo at
http://www.ntp.org/

Ed Gurski