US Daylight Savings Time and zoneinfo

[Jason Joines]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Jason Joines wrote:
>>    Daylight savings time is March 11 this year.  I have some really old
>> boxes that think it's on April 1.  One of these runs a web based
>> calendaring application so I'm kinda worried about it.  Is it as simple
>> as replacing my specific timezone file, /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central,
>> with a newer version?
> 
> Yes, that should be sufficient.  Although you'd prolly be better off in 
> the long term if you kept the tzdata (or equivalent for your distro) 
> package up to date.
> 


    That would be better.  These are old SuSE boxes that no longer have
updates ( 9.1 and older ) and are going out of service in the near
future.  I copied the file from an up to date 10.0 box and zdump
indicated it worked.  Just seemed to simple.


Jason
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