What puzzles me in this whole thing is that it seems to me tzdata updates should be available to all versions regardless of their "production" state, but it seems a lot of distros are locked to specific versions....
2013/9/7 Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solo...@gmail.com>: > I just checked my Mageia 3 and found that the files are from 2013c. > > [solomon@shlomo1 ~]$ /usr/sbin/zdump -v Asia/Jerusalem |grep 2013 > Asia/Jerusalem Thu Mar 28 23:59:59 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 01:59:59 2013 IST > isdst=0 > Asia/Jerusalem Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 03:00:00 2013 IDT > isdst=1 > Asia/Jerusalem Sat Oct 5 22:59:59 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 6 01:59:59 2013 IDT > isdst=1 > Asia/Jerusalem Sat Oct 5 23:00:00 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 6 01:00:00 2013 IST > isdst=0 > > I then updated to 2013d from Cauldron (I wonder why no "production" version > of 2013d). Now it looks OK. > > [solomon@shlomo1 ~]$ /usr/sbin/zdump -v Asia/Jerusalem |grep 2013 > Asia/Jerusalem Thu Mar 28 23:59:59 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 01:59:59 2013 IST > isdst=0 > Asia/Jerusalem Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 03:00:00 2013 IDT > isdst=1 > Asia/Jerusalem Sat Oct 26 22:59:59 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 27 01:59:59 2013 IDT > isdst=1 > Asia/Jerusalem Sat Oct 26 23:00:00 2013 UTC = Sun Oct 27 01:00:00 2013 IST > isdst=0 > > > > > On Sat, 7 Sep 2013 21:24:19 +0300 > "Amichay P. K." <am1chay....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> tnx, my machine is ok :) >> >> >> 2013/9/7 Hetz Ben Hamo <h...@hetz.biz> >> >> > 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 >> >> >> >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Linux-il mailing list >> > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> > >> > >> >> > > > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Sent by Claws Mail 3.9.0 - KDE 4.10.2 - LINUX Mageia 3 > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
