Re: DST switch in US now early
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On 03/06/07 15:09, Michael Marsh wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:
>> Given the early switch to DST in the US on March 11, if I have the
>> latest libc6 and libc6-dev in Sid (2.3.6.ds1-13), the time change will
>> be automatic?
>
> Yup:
>
> $ date -d"3:00am March 11, 2007"
> Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 EDT 2007
>
> Interestingly, some versions of date (it might depend on the specific
> changes to the tzdata file) will give you an "invalid date" error for
> 2am on the 11th. That's what I see on Sid, but RHEL3 will happily
> display 2am on the 11th as 3am.
But 2AM isn't 3AM.
$ date -d"1:59:59am March 11, 2007"
Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 CST 2007
$ date -d"2:00am March 11, 2007"
date: invalid date `2:00am March 11, 2007'
$ date -d"3:00am March 11, 2007"
Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 CDT 2007
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