Gene Heskett <gene.heskett <at> verizon.net> writes: > > Yes, but on this FC2 box, there is not to my knowledge, any mechanism > for auto-updating the file. Can you elaborate on hwo this is done? > Yum. The tzdata maintainer publishes a new version with the changed data files. The tzdata archive contains textual description of the timezones which are compiled into a binary format. The tools for dumping and compiling are not include in Fedora Core. Red Hat then releases a new tzdata package and everyone updates through yum. Not much different than when firefox is updated. - Ian
