[Cialug] Daylight Saving Time changes

[David Champion]

Yeah for stupid legislators. Daylight Savings Time needs to just go away 
- it's antiquated and useless.

-dc

Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> I thought the same.  I googled about it and found this:
> 
> New Federal Law—Springing Forward in March, Back in November
> 
> Months after Indiana passed the law that got it in step with the rest
> of the country, the federal government announced a major change in
> Daylight Saving Time. In Aug. 2005, Congress passed an energy bill that
> included extending Daylight Saving Time by about a month. Beginning in
> 2007, DST will start the second Sunday of March and end on the first
> Sunday of November.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stuart
> 
> On Jan 4, 2007, at 15:19, Jerry Heiselman wrote:
> 
>> I must be out of the loop.  What new legislature was recently passed
>> regarding Daylight Saving Time?
>>
>> On 1/4/07, Nathan C. Smith <smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
>>> I was just researching that law over lunch - from the perspective of 
>>> what
>>> Microsoft will do for older operating systems like NT Server.  There is
>>> probably a registry setting somewhere that only needs to be tweaked.
>>>
>>> I wonder if there were consumer electronics lobbyists behind the new 
>>> law.
>>> "Update?  no, that ${COOL_GADGET} can't be updated, you will have to 
>>> get a
>>> new one"
>>>
>>> -Nate
>>>
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: Tim Wilson [mailto:tim_linux at wilson-home.com]
>>> > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 1:49 PM
>>> > To: cialug at cialug.org
>>> > Subject: [Cialug] Daylight Saving Time changes
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > With the upcoming changes to Daylight Saving Time, I'm curious what
>>> > others have done to prepare for this.  At work, we have several older
>>> > Unix/Linux machines, and of course they seem to have different ways of
>>> > handling it.  Some allow setting a long string in the TZ environment
>>> > variable, while others seem to require downloading new zoneinfo files.
>>> >  For the latter, I think they can be found at
>>> > http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm.  These are the source files, so
>>> > it appears you need to run zic on them.  Has anyone done this?
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Tim
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