FC4 and tzdata

[Jon Moss]

Thanks to a script that Scott Medlock sent me, I've
successfully and painlessly updated DST on my FC4
webserver (and fixed the missing timezone files I
inadvertantly deleted).  

Thanks for all the wonderful assistance.  All of you
are the greatest!

Jon

--- "Monty J. Harder" <mjharder at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/6/07, Jon Moss <mossjon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Since I've been up to my eyeballs in Microsoft DST
> > issues at work, I thought I'd take a breather and
> make
> > sure that my Linux servers were okay with the
> upcoming
> > change.  I was pleased to note that my oldest
> server
> > (running FC2) was fine.
> 
> As a fallback position, you can add this line to
> /etc/environment:
> 
> TZ=CST6CDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0
> 
> that defines the current ruleset.  I researched this
> right after the
> law was passed, and since have been trying to get
> the powers that be
> at my company to adopt this as the solution for
> Unices without easy
> updates (for SCO and HP-UX, it's /etc/TIMEZONE, but
> the TZ syntax is
> the same).
> 



 
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