Re: Patch for Daylight Savings Time (DST))
Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 06:05:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Rob Sims wrote:
> > >$ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
> > >/etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007
> > >MST isdst=0 gmtoff=-25200
> > >/etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007
> > >MDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-21600
> > >/etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 07:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007
> > >MDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-21600
> > >/etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 08:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007
> > >MST isdst=0 gmtoff=-25200
> > >
> > >Just take the current "security" updates for libc6.
> >
> > Neat. But this proves that ST setup is ok?
>
> In a slightly different form:
>
> date --date="Mar 10 15:00:00 UTC 2007"
> Sat Mar 10 09:00:00 CST 2007
>
> date --date="Mar 11 15:00:00 UTC 2007"
> Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 CDT 2007
>
> You see in the output of these date commands that the timezone is listed
> as CST on March 10 and CDT on March 11, which is correct. You can run
> the same to commands to determine whether your system also returns the
> correct timezones on those dates. (Given that I'm running stable and
> get correct results, I expect that you'll be fine as long as you're
Now I'm really confused. I'm running stable/sarge too:
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
/etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 01:59:59 2007 MST isdst=0 gmtoff=-25200
/etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 03:00:00 2007 MDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-21600
/etc/localtime Sun Oct 28 07:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:59:59 2007 MDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-21600
/etc/localtime Sun Oct 28 08:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007 MST isdst=0 gmtoff=-25200
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ date --date="Mar 10 15:00:00 UTC 2007"
Sat Mar 10 08:00:00 MST 2007
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ date --date="Mar 11 15:00:00 UTC 2007"
Sun Mar 11 08:00:00 MST 2007
Have I missed something blindingly obvious here? I thought Canada was
supposed to be aligning itself with US ST/DT?
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