Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: User tools for March 11 | Date | Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:40:39 +0000 |
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On Tuesday 13 February 2007 21:19, linux-os (Dick Johnson) 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?
Unless there are utilities homebrewing locales, glibc (locales) should be the only package that requires an update. Some distros may sub-package this as "timezone".
SLES got an updated "timezone" package for the Western Australian changes, but I'm not sure about the US changes.
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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