[kde-linux] Daylight saving

[Mark Ness]

Anne Wilson wrote:

>On Saturday 25 March 2006 18:29, Mark Ness wrote:
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>> I know this (reply) is not KDE specific but I was checking for Fedora
>>updates and this was one of them...tzdata. Do a "locate" on this and see if
>>it is installed and check for a config file?
>>
>> I don't know if this is a RH/Fedora specific package or a linux in general
>>package, but there is a tzdata package for managing timezone rules around
>>the world. For Fedora users living in locations already implementing DST
>>this update is not needed. For those living in areas about to adopt DST
>>this update is recomended.
>>
>> I do hope I'm not blowing smoke :-[
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>Reading that, I would guess that daylight saving is built in for 
>countries/states that are known to use it, but that package allows an 
>additional area to be defined.
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>Only a guess, though.  I'll see what happens overnight, tonight ;-)
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>Thanks for the suggestion.
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>Anne
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Right you are. It doesn't seem to be on my system. I just assumed it to 
be on my box
because my DST works fine. It is NOT on my box so I guess it IS an 
additional package
for new DST zones.
Sorry

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