So swap it back after a couple of weeks it you're really worried about it.

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:50:15 +1200
Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > A paperweight? For just having a clock out by an hour in one timezone? Wow.
> 
> A computer which can't show the time right is pretty bad IMHO.
> 
> > You could always follow the manual patch procedure that's
> > well-published, however you know that might conflict with any future
> > update to libc6.
> 
> Yes of course, replacing /etc/localtime (and a few of the same under
> /usr/share/zoneinfo to be safe) with the file from SUSE (or any
> other distro which does publish an update) is trivial, but bypassing the
> packaging system comes at the expense of the obvious drawbacks.
> Hence a new package would be the better solution, but if there isn't one,
> the manual fix is the right one.
> 
> I realise 3.1 is (obviously) no longer supported, but an upgrade to 4 is out
> of the question. One has to stabilise at some point.
> 
> Thanks everyone,
> 
> Volker
> 
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