Re: Daylight Savings Time problem

[David L. Craig]

> 
> On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> 
> > Run "date" and tell us what time zone it says. If it says GMT, that's
> > your problem. If it is wrong (or even if you suspect it), copy one of
> > the time-zone info files under /usr/lib/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime,
> > and reset your clock.
> > 
> > If you don't run DOS or Windows or something else that wants the system
> > clock set to local time, edit /etc/init.d/boot to set GMT="-u", then reboot
> > and check and set the time. That will make your system clock run GMT and
> > your local time be a translation of GMT to your time zone. 
> > 
> > The zone information file may also be wrong for your zone. If so, tell us
> > which file so we can verify that.
> > 
I could not find this information anywhere in the documentation.
If I missed it, where should I have looked.  If I didn't, how does
it get added and to what?