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Mar 10, 2007

Linux DST Change

As you probably know, thanks to the morons in Washington, Daylight Savings Time has been meaninglessly changed this year.

If you have some Linux boxes running a distro older than a couple of years, you'll likely need to manually update the time zone data. Luckily, Linux-Watch.com has a nice and consise HOWTO that I found easy to follow.

The only gotcha is something that StickyC discovered: many Linux distros (mine included), use a copy of the zoneinfo file for /etc/localtime instead of a symbolic link. This is, of course, easy to change, but it's something to be aware of.

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Ubuntu made the moron's change just fine. But then they issue updates all the time anyway. DST is SO retro. :)

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