Ok- mercy- I give up ntp. The point I was trying to make is that we all should get together and do it the same way. Let's try to make the script to run these updates part of standard distributions, part of the same rpm that distributes the TZ files in the first place maybe. Let it add a couple cronjobs/year which check: am I set to Israeli time, if yes- update zicfile, if no- exit.
Go ahead - it sounds like a simple script. Once you write such a script you can propose it to FC/Debian/Gentoo etc. It wouldn't even merit its own package but can be merged into the existing timezone packages.
Just drop the "If Israel then..." condition because:
1. See in http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm (and the tzdata* file under ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/,
reffered from the previous link) that as much as we think that we are so unique - timezones and DST's
shift around the world all the time (pan unintended).
2. A user on a system abroad (e.g. a webmail user visiting Israel) might want to see IST/IDT even
if the system time is not set to these timezones.
why shouldn't this be transparent to linux users?
It's pretty transparent for Debian users - I never had to deal with this on my Debian -
the system is just up to date with no "Israel specific" tweaking.
--Amos
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