On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:53:57AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > For me, summer-time has always been something of an annoyance. > > For me "Daylight Savings Time" has always been idiocy. > > BTW your "file mtimes" are stored in Unix time and converted to your > timezone for display.
And the time zone includes definitions of daylight saving time. $ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2009 /etc/localtime Thu Mar 26 23:59:59 2009 UTC = Fri Mar 27 01:59:59 2009 IST isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 /etc/localtime Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 2009 UTC = Fri Mar 27 03:00:00 2009 IDT isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 /etc/localtime Sat Sep 26 22:59:59 2009 UTC = Sun Sep 27 01:59:59 2009 IDT isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 /etc/localtime Sat Sep 26 23:00:00 2009 UTC = Sun Sep 27 01:00:00 2009 IST isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 So generally there's no need to change a timezone to make the DST take effect. Just set the proper time zone in advance. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
