Time zone Update Suse 8.1

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:56:55 -0400
Dan Ritter <dsr at tao.merseine.nu> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:46:01PM -0400, stephen goldman wrote:
> >  zdump -v America/New_York | grep 2007
> > America/New_York  Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
> > America/New_York  Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> > America/New_York  Sun Nov  4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> > America/New_York  Sun Nov  4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
> 
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/clock:
> TIMEZONE="America/New_York"
> DEFAULT_TIMEZONE="America/New_York"
> 
> /etc/init.d/boot.clock start
> 
> 
> Took me a while to figure that out, too. SuSE doesn't seem to
> have documented it.
Also check out  /etc/localtime
gaf at gaf:~> zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
/etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007
EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 /etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC
= Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 /etc/localtime
Sun Nov  4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1
gmtoff=-14400 /etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4
01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000




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