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[Ian Burrell]

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett <at> verizon.net> writes:
> 
> Yes, but on this FC2 box, there is not to my knowledge, any mechanism 
> for auto-updating the file.  Can you elaborate on hwo this is done?
> 

Yum.  The tzdata maintainer publishes a new version with the changed data files.
 The tzdata archive contains textual description of the timezones which are
compiled into a binary format.  The tools for dumping and compiling are not
include in Fedora Core.  Red Hat then releases a new tzdata package and everyone
updates through yum.

Not much different than when firefox is updated.

 - Ian