[CALUG] Day-light savings time 2007

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Rajiv Gunja wrote:

> Has anyone or your company/institute, taken/started any action against the
> day-light savings time of 2007?

What do you mean by "action against" ?  What specifically would you be 
expecting to do?

> What are the changes on the linux server end, please shed light / share your
> knowledge.

I would assume that if you keep your server up to date, distributions will 
provide updated libraries that provide the correct timezone information.  
There shouldn't be anything needed other than making sure you have the 
latest packages.

For example, for RHEL 4.0, observe the following:

1) Determine the package name that contains timezone information:

$ rpm -qf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York
tzdata-2005m-1.EL4

2) Check the changelog for this package:

$ rpm -q tzdata-2005m-1.EL4 --changelog|head
* Tue Sep 06 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> 2005m-1.EL4

- 2005m
  - changes for USA (extending DST by 4 weeks since 2007), Tunisia,
    Australia, Kazakhstan
  - historical timezone data changes for Japan, Poland, Northern Ireland 
and Mali
  - timezone name change for East Timor

As you can see, this package has been properly updated with the 2007 DST 
changes.  I'm sure other distributions have made appropriate updates as 
well.

Regards,

Jeremy Portzer, RHCE

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