DST, will Fedora change the time on the fly?

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 21:36:16 -0800 (PST) Antonio Olivares wrote:

> 
> Dear fedora users,
> 
> I have a quick question about DST(Daylight Savings Time), I know that
> in the US, we will change the time Spring forward,  Fall back
> 
> http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b2.html
> 
> I am running Fedora 9 x86_64 at home
> 
> [olivares at localhost ~]$ uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27.19-78.2.30.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue
> Feb 24 19:44:45 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [olivares at localhost ~]$ 
> 
> My concern is that the clock will be moved forward one hour, will it
> happen by itself in Fedora or do I need to update a package like
> tzdata?
> 
> I don't update everything because I am on dialup and only update the
> kernel mostly.  Maybe I will learn if this was changed automatically
> in the morning, but I do need to make sure I don't fall asleep when I
> need to head to work on Monday :)  
> 
> Thank you in Advance,
> 
> Antonio 
> 
> 
Antonio:
Relax, Fedora handles the time change automatically. Now if my body
would do the same...
-- cmg