On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Geoff Shang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Apologies for not reading the rest of my mail but I wanted to answer this. > > > On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, Amichay P. K. wrote: > > Will the Israeli winter clock changes have any effect in linux? >> Do you consider it safer to change the location to Greece? >> http://www.themarker.com/**technation/1.2111316<http://www.themarker.com/technation/1.2111316> >> > > I'm running Debian Squeeze and the timezone database is fine. But I do > subscribe to Debian updates. > > If you want to be sure, run this command: > > tzdump -v Asia/Jerusalem |grep 2013 > > It should output something like this: > > Asia/Jerusalem Thu Mar 28 23:59:59 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 01:59:59 2013 > IST isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 > Asia/Jerusalem Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 03:00:00 2013 > IDT isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 > Asia/Jerusalem Sat Oct 5 22:59:59 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 6 01:59:59 2013 > IDT isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 > Asia/Jerusalem Sat Oct 5 23:00:00 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 6 01:00:00 2013 > IST isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 > And if you have Geoff's output, then your clock would be moving at the wrong time[1] :) This is with a really up to date timezone data: $ /usr/sbin/zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2013 /etc/localtime Thu Mar 28 23:59:59 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 01:59:59 2013 IST isdst=0 /etc/localtime Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 03:00:00 2013 IDT isdst=1 /etc/localtime Sat Oct 26 22:59:59 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 27 01:59:59 2013 IDT isdst=1 /etc/localtime Sat Oct 26 23:00:00 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 27 01:00:00 2013 IST isdst=0 (you can use "Asia/Jerusalem" too, but make sure /etc/localtime indeed contains the content of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Israel or /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Jerusalem - or a symlink to one of them.) You need version *2013d* of the database if you want the latest Israeli law. -- Shimi [1] http://www.justice.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/FCE198C8-66FD-4AA8-AB9D-958264583207/41529/2401.pdf#page=8
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