Timezone woes
Juan Carlos Castro y Castro <[email protected]>
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I live in a country whose government thinks computers' clock settings are Rodney Dangerfield: it has no respect for them. Nearly every year, daylight savings start and end dates are set by decree, based on some frivolous circumstance. This year, they said changing clocks between the election and the runoff would cause problems in the voting machines. Idiots. So, we have to remember to go to sites like ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ every year and get a new file each year, run "zic" of them etc. If you have Fedora, this all is taken care for you automagically, for these files are coalesced into a separater package called "tzdata". That's also true in RHEL3 (unlike earlier Red Hat distros, in which it was part of glibc), but Red Hat's disposition to keep that updated is eerily reminiscent of molasses. The one in my system is labeled 2003c. Gaaaa. My suggestions is that Fedora's version of tzdata be backported and included into one of the Tao repositories, or Dag's, or Dries'. Should only be a matter of tweaking dependences. Makes sense? Thanks for listening to my grumpy rant, Juan _______________________________________________ Tao-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.taolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/tao-discuss
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