Re: Israeli summer time - Was "Re: Runtime changing of timezones"

[Yonah Russ]

I meant to solve the problem of israeli summer time in a way that we 
shouldn't have to update every individual station every year but rather 
that one computer be updated and let the update propogate automatically 
throughout israel.

perhaps we could  piggy back the timezone settings on the existing ntp 
infrastructure so that ntp.ac.il would propogate the correct timezone 
information to all the stations downstream
yonah

Shachar Shemesh wrote:

Yonah Russ wrote:

With such a huge community of techies, why can't we come up with a 
way to make this easier for all of us- or maybe someone has?

yonah

It's awfully easy, assuming you are not trying something irrelevant.

If all you want is to get daylight saving at the apropriate time, you 
don't need to touch anything. This, of course, assumes you live in a 
country with predictable daylight saving. If you live in Israel, you 
need to keep your linux system up to date at least once a year, and 
your'e set.

If, on the other hand, you want to move your computer from Israel to 
the US without terminating any process, you may find that some 
processes go on in their old time zone. Tough, but totally harmless.

I think that once we understand what the problem is, we may be able to 
come up with a solution.

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