Our (US) $s at work.

[Mike McCarty]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 09:49 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
>>On Sunday 31 July 2005 01:23, jdow wrote:
>>
>>>Regardless of all points taken in this discussion think a moment of
>>>the humor of the whole thing, please. The repair for Linux is one
>>>file that is not even an executable. For my case it's the usr share
>>>file: "/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles"
>>>
>>
>>And how would one go about fixing it?, mine 
>>(/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York) seems to be some compressed 
>>format.
>>
> 
> 
> This does not need fixing.  When/if the date/time of the change between
> standard and daylight times changes, your timezone file (New York | Los
> Angeles | whatever) gets replaced/updated and it automagically happens
> at the proper time. 

Would you please explain to me how my machine automagically knows it
needs to change the content of a file on its disc when the legislature
makes a change to the way DST works?

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Mike
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