On Wed, Mar 17, 2004, Yonah Russ wrote about "Israeli summer time - Was "Re: Runtime 
changing of timezones"":
> With such a huge community of techies, why can't we come up with a way 
> to make this easier for all of us- or maybe someone has?

It *is* easy. For example, on Redhat I just get the updated timezone files
(I think they come with glibc updates, or something), sit back, and watch
the time change automatically at exactly the right moment, and change back
again exactly in the random moment that a bunch of Shinui and Shas politicians
settled on. I don't have to do anything. [1]

I then read the emails that pass around my company explaining how to change
the time on Windows and what to do to fix incorrect hours in our calendar
software, and giggle.

[1] Well, not doing anything may be an exaggaration. I seem to remember that
sometimes cron doesn't notice the changed time, and the solution is to
restart it. Of course, a better solution would be to fix the bug in cron.
I also seem to remember some issues with the times in /var/log/messages being
off, but maybe this was fixed as I don't remember seeing this problem recently.

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