-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 15:09, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 3/6/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Given the early switch to DST in the US on March 11, if I have the >> latest libc6 and libc6-dev in Sid (2.3.6.ds1-13), the time change will >> be automatic? > > Yup: > > $ date -d"3:00am March 11, 2007" > Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 EDT 2007 > > Interestingly, some versions of date (it might depend on the specific > changes to the tzdata file) will give you an "invalid date" error for > 2am on the 11th. That's what I see on Sid, but RHEL3 will happily > display 2am on the 11th as 3am.
But 2AM isn't 3AM. $ date -d"1:59:59am March 11, 2007" Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 CST 2007 $ date -d"2:00am March 11, 2007" date: invalid date `2:00am March 11, 2007' $ date -d"3:00am March 11, 2007" Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 CDT 2007 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF7h+TS9HxQb37XmcRAsN0AKDrvsm8FbAUSlSZi0R4idXcAiTr+wCdFv9B fgD4LYGnrFy065R0smn+zC8= =jTCh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
