Question about DST changes in the US

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Wed Feb 14 16:35:14 UTC 2007


On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:52:08AM -0600, Kerry Miller wrote:
> I've got several different flavors of Fedora Core running both at home and
> work and have been researching how to make changes to when it switches
> from standard time to daylight saving time.  The only thing I found was
> that it links to files under /usr/share/zoneinfo but those don't look like
> text files.  how do I edit those files and then compile them to make the
> DST changes at the right time?

You just upgrade tzdata package to the latest (well, if you care just about
US DST changes, then already 2005m should be enough).  The package is
FC version independent, you can install latest rawhide tzdata even on FC1.

	Jakub




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