On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:19:59 -0500 "linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi! > In the United States, some idiots have decided that the year 2000 scare > wasn't enough so they changed the start date for daylight savings time > from the first Sunday in April to the second Sunday in March. > Does anybody know if there are new tools like `hwclock` and `date`? > Will new 'C' runtime libraries be necessary as well? Your vendor should be able to tell you whether the library versions you have are sufficiently up to date, which apps need restarting and which apps use their own timezone code and problems (check for example if you use Java) It's nothing special, timezone rules change all the time. Be glad the world is mostly standardising. When I was younger the UK summer time switches were set in a meeting each year and they were not too worried about adjusting it a week for Royal Ascot and that kind of thing. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
