> Using SuSE 2.4.7.  I have
> GMT="-u"                and
> TIMEZONE="PST8PDT"
> set in /etc/rc.config
>
> Are we going to have to shut down and restart all of our Linux servers to
> get daylight savings?

The base Linux clock is in UTC as seconds since Midnight 1/1/1970. The
kernel itself has no notion of "time zone" or "daylight savings". Instead
the time you see depends on home your time zone variables are said

eg try

TZ=GMT date
TZ=Europe/London date

This recongizes that multiple users may be in different time zones (and
likewise the locale handling allows different languages, sorting etc per
user)

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