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Re: Daylight Saving Time Change in U.S.A.
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Michael Mansour <[log in to unmask]>
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Michael Mansour <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:28:21 +1000
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Hi Brent,

> In the U.S.A. and Canada, the starting and ending times for Daylight
> Saving Time is changing this year.  I've been looking around and can 
> not figure out how to change this information under Linux, 
> specifically Scientific Linux.  Is there an RPM available or some 
> file I can edit?  I could always set the TZ environmental variable 
> to something huge, but I was wandering if there was a better way.  Thanks.

TUV supplies updates in this package:

tzdata-2006g-1.EL4

Make sure you're using the latest, if changes are needed raise a 
bugzilla.redhat.com bug and they will release a new tzdata shortly after.

Either that or you can modify directly using zic and other tools.

Regards,

Michael.

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