On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, P. Larry Nelson wrote:

> Might I ask what TUV is/stands for?

"The Upstream Vendor"(redhat)

> 
> I've got one SL 4.4 system and it has tzdata-2006g-1.EL4.

That one should have the latest Daylight time changes for the US. 

> All my SL 3.0.4 systems have tzdata-2004e-1.EL.
> My one SL 3.0.5 system has tzdata-2005f-1.EL3

Will research 30x .

> My RHEL_3 systems have tzdata-2006m-3.el3.
> My RHEL_4 systems have tzdata-2006m-3.el4.

I have just put tzdata-2006m-3.el4 into the "fastbugs" area of 44 .
You should not really need this but it is the latest.

ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386,x86_64/errata/fastbugs/RPMS/
This area is also accessable via yum.

-Connie Sieh

> And my RedHat 7.3 and 9.0 systems have no tzdata rpms.  ?
> 
> Other Than the unsupported RH 7.3 and 9.0 systems, all my systems
> are as up to date as I can make them, given yum cron jobs and RHN
> notices from RedHat.
> 
> So, how does one know if times will get changed properly for the
> new DST changes?
> 
> And what does one do for unsupported legacy systems?
> Don't think I want to look forward to manually changing 50+ systems.
> Also can't say I've heard of this change in start/end time for DST.
> Ah well...
> 
> Thanks!
> - Larry
> 
> Michael Mansour wrote on 1/9/2007 3:28 PM:
> > 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.
> > 
> >> --
> >>
> >>   Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.)
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