Question about DST changes in the US

[François Patte]

tokyoi at mac.com a écrit :
> 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?
>>
>> Or, is there another fix for this?  Is there a patch or updated RPM to
>> replace the files in /zoneinfo?
> 
> 
> Just off the cuff: If your system is set to use UTC, local time and 
> changes will be applied when Fedora boots.

You will get problem if you have a dual boot with windows....

Why don't use ntpdate and cron.daily?


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François Patte
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Université René Descartes
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