Shimi, 2013-c2 updates (available for centos 5.x/rhel 5.x) should be sufficient too.
תודה, *חץ בן חמו* "*חץ ביז <http://www.hetz.biz>*"- שרותי פרילאנס לניהול ותחזוקת שרתי Linux ופתרונות וירטואליזציה. טלפון: 054-5297156 אתם מוזמנים לבקר אותנו בבלוג היעוץ שלנו <http://vps-consulting.info> [image: גם אתר זה מתארח ב-חץ ביז שרתי VPS] * * 2013/9/7 shimi <linux...@shimi.net> > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Geoff Shang <ge...@quitelikely.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Apologies for not reading the rest of my mail but I wanted to answer this. >> >> >> On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, Amichay P. K. wrote: >> >> Will the Israeli winter clock changes have any effect in linux? >>> Do you consider it safer to change the location to Greece? >>> http://www.themarker.com/**technation/1.2111316<http://www.themarker.com/technation/1.2111316> >>> >> >> I'm running Debian Squeeze and the timezone database is fine. But I do >> subscribe to Debian updates. >> >> If you want to be sure, run this command: >> >> tzdump -v Asia/Jerusalem |grep 2013 >> >> It should output something like this: >> >> Asia/Jerusalem Thu Mar 28 23:59:59 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 01:59:59 2013 >> IST isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 >> Asia/Jerusalem Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 03:00:00 2013 >> IDT isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 >> Asia/Jerusalem Sat Oct 5 22:59:59 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 6 01:59:59 2013 >> IDT isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 >> Asia/Jerusalem Sat Oct 5 23:00:00 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 6 01:00:00 2013 >> IST isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 >> > > And if you have Geoff's output, then your clock would be moving at the > wrong time[1] :) > > This is with a really up to date timezone data: > > $ /usr/sbin/zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2013 > /etc/localtime Thu Mar 28 23:59:59 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 01:59:59 2013 > IST isdst=0 > /etc/localtime Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 03:00:00 2013 > IDT isdst=1 > /etc/localtime Sat Oct 26 22:59:59 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 27 01:59:59 2013 > IDT isdst=1 > /etc/localtime Sat Oct 26 23:00:00 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 27 01:00:00 2013 > IST isdst=0 > > (you can use "Asia/Jerusalem" too, but make sure /etc/localtime indeed > contains the content of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Israel or > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Jerusalem - or a symlink to one of them.) > > You need version *2013d* of the database if you want the latest Israeli > law. > > -- Shimi > > [1] > http://www.justice.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/FCE198C8-66FD-4AA8-AB9D-958264583207/41529/2401.pdf#page=8 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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