On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 02:38 +0930, Tim wrote: > Things are being made a bit more awkward, this year, as the summertime > changeover has been postponed from the usual time. So some unmodifiable > gadgets will get this wrong. In theory, this shouldn't happen, as all gadgets are supposed to use the same library routines (man localtime(3) and friends) to find out what the local (wall clock) time is. The current tzdata package does cover this year's exception for Australia, as you can verify by running "zdump -v -c 2007 Australia/NSW" or similar, to show DST transitions. There is one big HOWEVER on my RH9 FC4 boxes, which I believe is a packaging bug. All library routines dealing with local time look up your desired timezone via the TZ environment variable or, when unset, use the system wide default /etc/localtime. On sane systems /etc/localtime is a symlink to your chosen default zone file (e.g. /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/NSW in my case). Not in RH or FC. Instead, the timezone setup routine of the installer simply copies the chosen zone file to /etc/localtime. This is fine and dandy until the zone file changes. I believe that /etc/localtime should either be a symlink to the correct zone file, or the post-install scripts of the tzdata package should take care of copying the new zone file over /etc/localtime. Cheers Steffen.
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