[nylug-talk] Daylight Savings DST tzdata

[Seth Rothenberg]

I just thought I would share a link.
I have an ancient RedHat box that serves as my mail server.
I don't have time to install and test a new OS
in the next 5 days, so I need to patch it.
And I'm not paying RH for the priviledge.


There's a great debate about what to do,
including one person who generously did not
question the motives, frame of mind, sanity -
he just posted a HOW-TO....

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=527036
(search for pratul )

(and the self-validating thread included a test which
my system now passes    date -d 'Mar 27' | grep EDT .)

Have fun, fellow PROcrastinators.

If anyone needs a copy of the tzdata tarball, let me know.

It's not hard to find a pointer to it, but the
target server has to be working in order to get the file.