On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:31:12PM -0700, Hans Fugal wrote: > > So I just caught wind that DST starts earlier and ends later starting > this year. I wish they'd just get rid of it altogether, but no it's much > more fun to mess everything up.
Only a bunch of politicians could have come up with such an asinine concept. Happy Nighttime Wasting Time. > > I imagine something will need ot be patched/upgraded in order to deal > with this. What is it? The kernel? libc? Some timezone-handling > package? There is a package in most disties called timezoneinfo, tzdata (on Fedora) or some such. If that package is reasonably up to date, you should be good to go. The US government is not the only one that mucks with time zones world wide, so updates are fairly common, several times a year. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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