On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:50:43AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > >>>But do other distributions keep the Israeli timezone up-to-date out > >>>of the box? I didn't know about the link above and didn't have to go > >>> > >>> > > > >AFAIK that's impossible to keep Israeli timezone up-to-date out of the box > >for a prolonged period of times - Israeli timezone is not fixed but set by > >the Knesset on case-by-case basis. Unless I have missed something and > >sanity made a small victory in this field. > >
Far from impossible. Currently there is a 4-years agreement betwwen the relegious and the seculars regarding the daylight saving times. As you probably remember, last year the relegious people realised they made a mistake regarding that year and tried to get an extra day around Yom-Kippur, but it didn't work out eventually. Last time there was a change was around RedHat 6.1 or 6.2, IIRC. But an administrastor with an up-to-date system did not have to worry about the time-zome update (at least linux admins) because a while before the clock change was a glibc security issue. And the fix included an up-to-date glibc, complete with the fixed timezone. couple of monthes before it Anyway, many home users tend to keep very new versions of the distro, as opposed to windows version that tend to be much older. This is probably why Microsoft simply gave up on updating the Israeli time-zome (beginning with Windows 98). > > > > > It is impossible, unless you have a reliable update mechanism in place, > yes. In particular, if your update mechanism is reliable enough that > people actually use it when security problems are fixed, or even > occasionally, then you have a machine that has accurate (enough) and up > to date (enough) time zone information. > > These conditions are met with Debian. And might I add: glibc security issues keep popping up. So the glibc package should be kep up-to-date for other reasons :-( -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
